Wednesday 10th February 2021
Posted: Wed 10 Feb, 2021 6:56 am
Morning all.
No surprise to see who wrote the report as he seems to delight in winding people up.Written by Dr Kristian Niemietz, the IEA’s head of political economy, it says: “There is no rational basis for the adulation the NHS is currently receiving, and no reason to be ‘grateful’ for the fact that we have it. It should go without saying that if the UK did not have the NHS it would not have no healthcare system. It would have a different healthcare system.”
After suggesting possible alternative systems used overseas, such as insurance-based models, it adds: “There is no guarantee that this would have served the UK better during the pandemic, but there is certainly no reason to believe that it would have done any worse. There is nothing special about the NHS, neither during this pandemic, nor at any other time.
I assume the IEA didn't mention that.Brian Klaas
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When it comes to vaccine rollouts, Britain shows the potential of an efficient, centralized system. While Americans are signing up for parallel vaccine waiting lists and wasting days on hold or crashing websites, the NHS just texts you when it's your turn.
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The pattern is that the enthusiasts for reform were often equally enthusiastic last time. Failing to learn to adapt to these tensions will mean we go round this loop again sooner than we might wish. 11/11
For some reason I've got an additional cost of 4% on top based on the German system in my head? Anyway, the German system is certainly very good, but they spend about $1,000 dollars per head more than us. Who's to say we wouldn't achieve similar or better outcomes if we spent the same on the NHS. Certainly I don't see how we can afford German standard healthcare if we can't afford what we currently spend on the NHS as we are repeatedly being told. Also, off the top of my head, I think some Scandanavian countries and Italy have nationalised primary care, while ours is in the private sector. It's weird how this is overlooked when people are suggesting we should change how we deliver healthcare to be more in line with other countries. Other countries all have very different systems from each other, so which other system specifically is the "right" system?And there is never any indication on how much additional admin would cost.
I think I heard him then compare that 10 deaths with road accidents. FFS.Chris McKeon
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Mr Jenrick: Insurance premium rises of more than 1,000% (like those at the Decks in Runcorn) are "completely out of kilter" with the stats that say only 10 people died in high rise fires last year.
Still nothing about any action to make insurance premiums affordable.
After they've burnt down, presumably.Chris McKeon
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Also worth pointing out that the reason insurance premiums are going up is not because of the risk to people's lives.
What the insurance companies are worried about is having to pay for the buildings to be rebuilt.
Much like their battle for ratings Kevin clearly came off worst in this encounter and now people keep calling him 'peanut' on Twitter.Lucy Lawless
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7 Jan
No, Peanut. They are not Patriots. They are your flying monkeys,homegrown terrorists, QAnon actors. They are the douchebags that go out and do the evil bidding of people like you who like to wind them up like toys and let them do their worst.
Get me a decent bottle of wine and a tube of sour cream and onion Pringles and you can do what you like.tinyclanger2 wrote:don't forget that I get to have half an hour experiencing the world through the medium of your brain.
Sorbo is full fundie as well, starring in God's Not Dead.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Did anyone else watch Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess in the Nineties? Well Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) is now a sad member of the Trumpist cult, while Lucy Lawless (Xena) is a Greenpeace activist and all round fabulous human being. Which led inevitably to this epic confrontation after Trump's minions invaded the Capitol building and Sorbo tried to claim they were 'Antifa'.
https://twitter.com/RealLucyLawless/sta ... wsrc%5Etfw
In a response to some other idiot saying 'Do these look like Trump supporters? Or Leftist agitators disguised as Trump supporters...'
Sorbo responds 'They don’t look like patriots to me...'
Before once again getting his arse well and truly handed to him by the mighty warrior princess.
Much like their battle for ratings Kevin clearly came off worst in this encounter and now people keep calling him 'peanut' on Twitter.Lucy Lawless
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7 Jan
No, Peanut. They are not Patriots. They are your flying monkeys,homegrown terrorists, QAnon actors. They are the douchebags that go out and do the evil bidding of people like you who like to wind them up like toys and let them do their worst.
I'll just make sure it's not an afternoon.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Get me a decent bottle of wine and a tube of sour cream and onion Pringles and you can do what you like.tinyclanger2 wrote:don't forget that I get to have half an hour experiencing the world through the medium of your brain.
Fair warning though, if it's an afternoon at the moment you're most likely to experience someone watching Judge Judy looking to see if there are any hot women in the audience.
Sadly not, but I will have a look. Have you seen 'Forged in Fire'? It's a bit like the Bake Off but with Trump supporters making knives.tinyclanger2 wrote:Anyone seen "Blown Away" (American glassblowing version of the Great British Sewing Bee).
I love it!
Ah but is he? There are accusations that he's a 'fake Christian' because he only started espousing evangelism and making the straight to DVD god flicks after his career tanked and he couldn't get any other work. Something he blames on being blacklisted for his conservative views or Lucy Lawless stole his show after sleeping with the producer or some other shit because, as seems quite common amongst certain right wing types, nothing is ever his fault.refitman wrote:Sorbo is full fundie as well
Did you hear the news from Canada? They've designated the PB a terrorist organisation.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Apparently one of the Proud Boys who was prominent in the 6th January events has now said Trump lied to him in assuring them that the election was rigged.
I wonder how many others will belatedly accept this?
Ok, but as you can see it goes downhill rapidly after checking out chicks on daytime TV.tinyclanger2 wrote:I'll just make sure it's not an afternoon.
Thanks AK, I hadn't heard that until you mentioned it.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Apparently one of the Proud Boys who was prominent in the 6th January events has now said Trump lied to him in assuring them that the election was rigged.
I wonder how many others will belatedly accept this?
So yeah you've got to wonder how many prosecutions and defamation lawsuits are going to have to be filed before the bubble bursts and they realise they've been had.A member of the far-right Proud Boys charged for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol blamed former President Donald Trump for his conduct, claiming he was “misled by the president’s deception.”
according to the filing by lawyer Jonathan Zucker. “Defendant did not act out of criminal intent but out of conscience, albeit a frighteningly confused and distorted sense of conscience.”
They call it a "Chumocracy" which sounds much more cuddly and something that can be indulged and tolerated than calling it what it is - corruption. "Chumocracy" sounds very public school and gentleman's club. Lesser mortals need neither apply nor trouble their tiny minds.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:It's astonishing really, after 4 years of Trump and a pitiful attempt at an insurrection by right wing morons American politics is now a place to escape from the grinding awfulness of our politics at home. A place where justice appears to be being done, comeuppance is being had and lessons are been learned. At least by some. Whereas here we have various parliamentary committees and watchdogs criticising a government for what is obviously outright corruption in euphemistic terms because they're scared and it would only make a splash in the Guardian and Independent.
Upon witnessing the antic's at the Capitol on January the 6'th Kenya's Daily Nation Newspaper asked quite rightly 'Who is the banana republic now?'
At the time it was both the US and the UK.
Now it's just us.
Quite how a fast track approach where bids were favoured if they came from a Tory MP or Lord can be seen as anything other than outright corruption escapes me.PorFavor wrote:They call it a "Chumocracy" which sounds much more cuddly and something that can be indulged and tolerated than calling it what it is - corruption. "Chumocracy" sounds very public school and gentleman's club. Lesser mortals need neither apply nor trouble their tiny minds.
It's always time for that!PorFavor wrote:Time for this again, I feel.