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vickyduckyI didn't get a chance to make a post on August 7th, although I've just checked back and all unknowing I did make a post on July 8th, so if I were American, which, of course, I'm not, that would count as 07.08.09, so I was determined to make a post today. It would help a lot if I had anything I really wanted to say, but inevitably, I don't really.
While I've been unable to get to lj these past few weeks, I've had all sorts of things in my head, including an impassioned defence of the NHS, which not only pays my salary every month, but has saved my son's life on more than one occasion. I think it boils down to, I didn't have to wait for some rich old man to pay for my son to get proper treatment for his asthma (like Helen Hunt had to in 'As good as it gets') and under the NHS nobody has to choose between feeding their children and going into a diabetic coma because they can't afford any insulin (a scenario in the last series of ER). I realise that both of the examples of American health care I have given here are fictional, but the things said about the NHS have born so little relationship to reality that I felt that was probably fair. My favourite has to be that apparently (and I heard this on Mock the Week, so it may be apocryphal) someone said that if Stev(ph?)en Hawking had been British and at the mercy of the NHS he'd have died years ago - except of course that he is British and says he owes his life to the NHS. And as for Sarah Palin - I have no words. She made we want to vomit every time I saw her before - now, I can't even begin to explain.
So, got that off my chest then, sorry.
While I've been unable to get to lj these past few weeks, I've had all sorts of things in my head, including an impassioned defence of the NHS, which not only pays my salary every month, but has saved my son's life on more than one occasion. I think it boils down to, I didn't have to wait for some rich old man to pay for my son to get proper treatment for his asthma (like Helen Hunt had to in 'As good as it gets') and under the NHS nobody has to choose between feeding their children and going into a diabetic coma because they can't afford any insulin (a scenario in the last series of ER). I realise that both of the examples of American health care I have given here are fictional, but the things said about the NHS have born so little relationship to reality that I felt that was probably fair. My favourite has to be that apparently (and I heard this on Mock the Week, so it may be apocryphal) someone said that if Stev(ph?)en Hawking had been British and at the mercy of the NHS he'd have died years ago - except of course that he is British and says he owes his life to the NHS. And as for Sarah Palin - I have no words. She made we want to vomit every time I saw her before - now, I can't even begin to explain.
So, got that off my chest then, sorry.
