Well done DGand everyone else who's donated - and good luck to JJ and a full recovery to get him back on track.
Why's he paying £7,000 private for that operation in the first place? How many ****ing foreigners come and get a new full set of teeth sorted for **** all and this poor bastard has to scratch about for donations for a career saving operation? Fair play to Danny Graham but he should never have had to dig for that cash in the first place.
It's a ****ing lottery mate. An old pal of mine died of cancer because the NHS wouldn't pay for the treatment. We tried to raise the money but couldn't meet the cost. Poor bastard died 48 years old. He'd grafted all his life & paid into the system.
It's ridiculous mate, my gran has alzheimer's and the gov't took her entire estate away to pay for care costs, all her property, savings, her pension, everything. Then when it all ran out they tried moving her to another cheaper home to care for her. It's awful how it's come to be in the state it's in.
Yes indeed, I quite agree with you, it's ****ing rank. Yet if you're a lezza from Somalia they'll give you owt.
Nothing to do with Foreigners imo, the NHS is just ****ed. Dental work is deemed as necessary, where an expensive knee operation isn't - non professional sports person wouldnt need the same Op. They dont take the persons career into account, they just offer the standard approved treatments to everyone. Same for Cancer treatment - they don't approve the latest treatments because they cost more, forgetting that the care cost of a terminal patient taking up a hospital bed can cost more than the new treatment which would have cured them and got them out of hospital. Eye surgery - in some cases there are 2 kinds of surgery available. the standard NHS one which restores 70% of normal eyesight, and an expensive one which restores 95% but the NHS refuse to cover (% values are made up, but it is something like that). they wont even cover the costs up to the standard treatment, allowing the patient to pay the difference. if you want the expensive one, you pay for all of it. You want a free system, where everyone is treated the same, that is what you get with no consideration for personal or professional circumstance.
I understand what you're saying mate, but the NHS budget could be stretched to facilitate stuff like this if they weren't having to pay dentists £30,000 to stick a set of porcelain veneers in every toothless gyppo that shows up from Romania, this is about simple maths as far as I'm concerned.
The NHS budget to accommodate a lot of things if is was run properly.... I am pretty sure the % of budget lost to toothless romanians is less than the budget lost due to inefficient running and care that could be avoided if the NHS approved treatments included new technology/medicines that meant patients could be cured / be treated as out-patients rather than, for example, spending buckets of cash on radiotherapy and cancer therapies that mean the patients are bed ridden and need to be cared for as in-patients. I have a mate who is 31 years old. had cancer in his knee. The French system meant that he could go to Paris for cutting edge treatment which allowed the tumor to be removed without the loss of his leg (traditional treatment would have lead to amputation). The new treatment was very expensive, but avoided months of physiotherapy, care, expensive prosthetic and years of other costs which would have been more than new treatment in the long run. That treatment was covered by the french system, because they worked out it would 1. be better for the patient 2. be cheaper for the system. I'd like to see the NHS do that...
My biggest gripe with the NHS is statisticians, pen pushers and analysts, soaking up huge portions of the budget just to show how **** the NHS is. Pathetic. It probably is a lot smaller mate in terms of budget % but the point still stands, this is wasted money, sticking 30 grands worth of porcelain in somebody's mouth who can't speak a word of English and offers nothing to the economy. Whether you stand for pro-immigration is another debate altogether, when the going gets tough, you make cuts in places that are not deemed pivotal to the success of an organisation, our NHS are incapable of doing that because they're being dictated to by the good old EU.
We actually spend less money per head on health care than many other countries in the western world, behind the USA, Australia, Germany, France and Ireland just to name a few..
