Quote: Aaron @ August 13 2009, 1:20 PM BSTYes, I am. And yes, I do. And I milk it for all it's worth, with my free prescriptions and comprehensive medical care.
Yes, we should be eternally grateful to the Labour party for introducing it.
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Quote: chipolata @ August 13 2009, 1:10 PM BSTYou're right. They should just forget all about reforming health care and leave it as it is, where poor people are f**ked.
Poor people are not refused medical treatment, they're billed and never pay and the charges are eventually dropped. It's the middle class who take the biggest hit if they're uninsured.
Quote: DaButt @ August 13 2009, 1:49 PM BSTPoor people are not refused medical treatment, they're billed and never pay and the charges are eventually dropped. It's the middle class who take the biggest hit if they're uninsured.
You need your own NHS system over there. Problem solved.
Quote: chipolata @ August 13 2009, 1:21 PM BSTYes, we should be eternally grateful to the Labour party for introducing it.
Despite what they'd have you believe, it's not as simple as that. But for the sake of your quaint argument, yes we should.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 12 2009, 8:23 PM BSTFag?
No thanks, I don't smoke.
Quote: Aaron @ August 13 2009, 1:57 PM BSTDespite what they'd have you believe, it's not as simple as that.
Er, they did introduce it. That bit really is as simple as that. Unless you're a tedious party political dogmatist that thinks "Tory = Good, Labour = Bad" Which I'm sure you're not.
Quote: chipolata @ August 13 2009, 2:03 PM BSTEr, they did introduce it. That bit really is as simple as that. Unless you're a tedious party political dogmatist that thinks "Tory = Good, Labour = Bad" Which I'm sure you're not.
You're absolutely right. Aaron isn't the kind of person who sees things in 'Black' or 'White'. 
No, it's not. Well, not in the real world. In your simple little mind it does appear to be that simple.
Another thing we should be grateful to the Labour party for is the smoking ban. Although I do wish they'd triple the tax on alcohol.
Quote: Aaron @ August 13 2009, 2:06 PM BSTAlthough I do wish they'd triple the tax on certain forms of cheap-shit alcohol which are used mainly by the uneducated and unemployable to get themselves drunk and make themselves recruitable by the Jeremy Kyle Show, while leaving people who can drink proper drinks properly and without having a negative effect on other people, well alone.
Agreed.
Ha. I suppose that would be ... well, better than nothing. Would pay for most of the NHS treatment those kind of c**ts drum up after their pissy booze ups.
I'd also like to see alcoholics refused liver transplants and on a different note entirely, a proper study into the nationalisation of the railways.
Quote: Aaron @ August 13 2009, 3:02 PM BSTHa. I suppose that would be ... well, better than nothing. Would pay for most of the NHS treatment those kind of c**ts drum up after their pissy booze ups.
I usually count myself as being rather liberal, but after I heard an ambulance driver describing how often they get called to treat the very same people collapsing after their benders, I'll allow myself a bit of a "it shouldn't be allowed" moment. I don't want to pay to fund these people's self-abuse. Maybe if they exceed a certain number of call-outs, they should be obliged to attend alcohol awareness meetings...on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Our automobile clubs (like AAA) do that when you become a nuisance. My husband's cousin just figured that every time he ran out of gas they'd come get him. After 10 times in 3 months (no lie!), they suspended his membership. Maybe something like that would work?
Our leading automobile club is the AA, which is also the initials of 'Alcoholics Anonymous'. There's a gag to be had there somewhere, but I'm not going to attempt it.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 13 2009, 4:00 PM BSTOur automobile clubs (like AAA) do that when you become a nuisance. My husband's cousin just figured that every time he ran out of gas they'd come get him. After 10 times in 3 months (no lie!), they suspended his membership. Maybe something like that would work?
That does sound like a good idea. If you're not familiar with him, Google the story of George Best. That's exactly the kind of thing that disgusts me.
Quote: Aaron @ August 13 2009, 5:24 PM BSTThat does sound like a good idea. If you're not familiar with him, Google the story of George Best. That's exactly the kind of thing that disgusts me.
He should have had thorough counselling, before he was considered for a transplant.