That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ting-NHS-fortune.html

Here are some startling figures on which to contemplate, if one is concerned at the demise of our once wonderful NHS.

/// The issue, dubbed ‘health tourism’, is thought to cost the NHS as much as £200million a year. ///

What could be done with this amount of money?

[Sqad]

em....LOL.

I have been on the "receiving end" both in Spain and in UK, both privately and State Controlled.

Was it nice?...no.....I was a bloody awful patient.

[emmie]

did you watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, not sure that those watching really think the NHS is the best of the best, as Danny Boyle seems to think.

[Sqad]

I did watch it em.........but didn't approve of the exploitation of the NHS.....but apparently it opened the door to overseas contracts which was discussed on AB. with mixed views.

[emmie]

I know we have discussed this before, both as patients and looking after people who have had to access the NHS, and in many of my recent experiences say the last 10 years, they have been quite poor. People now are commodities, shunt them in and shunt them out, often leaving you bewildered and also often back in hospital, because the illness has not been sorted out from the start, so it's not cost effective.

[Sqad]

em.....maybe! maybe!..............you know my feelings em.

I feel that the people of the UK are "molly coddled" as far as healthcare is concerned and should learn to do more for themselves and not to rely on unrealistic expectations from the NHS which can never be totally delivered.

[emmie]

i do see that, but it's what people expect isn't it? What is going to happen when our population gets a lot older, and the younger people coming along haven't managed to pay much into the pot, there is going to be a massive shortfall of funds.

[Sqad]

em10.......exactly.....that situation has been developing since the inception of the NHS.......explosion of population ......surge in advances in medicine .....in the last 50 years.

[emmie]

yes, expect lots, but won't, can't pay for it. Not exactly rocket science is it, though i am reliably informed rocketry is not a science.

[Sqad]

em..;-)

[emmie]

sqad x

[emmie]

we have to stop meeting like this x

[Sqad]

em....just before you go....have you noticed that the ED is introducing "badges" for proficiency etc and already the @rse lickers of CB are dancing around the flagpole.

[emmie]

no, who are these a**elickers when they are at home

[Euphemia]

LOL

[craft1948]

It's okay sqad...............you're getting one for services to lingerie.

[Sqad]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1166360.html

em....take a look at some of those replies.........the sooner the all get their badge of worthiness, the sooner we can settle down to normal AB (whatever that is?)

[Sqad]

crafty..........being awarded a badge for lingerie by CB women is an INSULT>

[craft1948]

Don't look at me sqad, I never wear any.

[Sqad]

crafty.......I know............;-)

[craft1948]

I do hope you're not intimating that the CB ladies are common...........