Thank god the unions know what’s right for us……

I have copied a response by the union Unite to a report prepared by Lord Ara Darzi who was brought into government by Gordon Brown.  The big difference with this lord?  He’s also a doctor, practicing surgeon.  You would have thought that would put oil on the troubled waters with unions, you are right to think it hasn’t.  

Unites’ response to a part of his report is below.  Apparently one of Darzi’s recommendations is that the patient should hold the budget for their care.  You mean actually get to spend our own money?  Well that’s a step forward.  Not for Unite, it is a huge step back.  Read the response.  We, the patient, are not fit to make our own choice about healthcare because we can’t “critically evaluate a research report”!  What?????  You have to be able to do that to choose appropriate care????  I would imagine that the Unite’s leadership who parade around as healthcare workers can’t even read the report much more understand it.  Do people have to understand the science behind food to make the right choice for dinner?  No, and yet it is a staple of life just in the same way healthcare is.  Doctors and unions would have you beleive that healthcare is so complicated that we mere mortals can’t even begin to fathom the complexities.  This flies in the face of current research with people who have long-term conditions that shows the patient has far more incite into their condition than does the doctor in most cases.

I would suggest we can’t make a choice because Neanderthals like Unite don’t want us to.  It would erode their power-base and the union’s income.  Remember these people think nothing of protecting the staff in Kent who let 90 people die in their own excreta.  

Even Castro’s brother is starting to dismantle the old Cuban communist state.  Why do we have to live with the remnants of it here?  In a democracy?  These people are vermin who play to our fears, use innuendo and lies to get what they want, and would rather put our lives at risk than change their 19th century view of the world.

Read the response below, the full response to the Darzi report is on Unites website. 

 

Personal Budgets 

A damaging suggestion is that patients should hold their own personal budgets, including NHS 

resources (page 33). There are real and obvious risks here, unless we also give patients the skills to 

critically evaluate research studies.

~ by nhsiskillingus on May 4, 2008.