EUROPE Theresa May Apologizes for Delays in Britain’s Health System By CEYLAN YEGINSUJAN. 4, 2018 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page day after denying that the National Health Service was facing a crisis, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain apologized on Thursday for delays throughout the health care agency as it scrambled to cope with a particularly difficult winter season. “I know it’s difficult, I know it’s frustrating, I know it’s disappointing for people, and I apologize,” she said in a television interview after being asked if she would be happy if a relative were put through the delays that patients were facing. A flu outbreak, colder weather and high levels of respiratory illness have put an unusually severe strain on the N.H.S. this winter, forcing the service to postpone thousands of nonurgent surgeries and outpatient appointments to free up hospital beds and staff. And all that comes against a backdrop of years of austerity-driven budget restraints, as well as staffing shortages that many health experts attribute to the anti-immigrant atmosphere fostered by Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, which is driving foreign health care workers back to their home countries. In several emergency wards across the country, patients are having to wait more than 12 hours before they are tended to by a health professional. Hospital corridors are brimming with patients waiting for wards to be freed up, and nonurgent cases are being referred to pharmacies or general practitioners. ***the Socialists are running out of your money
A VERY powerful man called this behavior "smart." 40,000,000 people agreed with him. Further, it's not hypocritical for Buffet to call for a single payer health system and to prudently manage his taxes. Unlike you, he pays a substantial portion of the health insurance for hundreds of thousands of his employees. So by your own logic, you should not be opining on healthcare as you don't pay nearly as much as he does.
We will have to agree to disagree on this one, I'm afraid... I suppose this is a debate as old as human civilization itself, so I doubt that I can contribute anything meaningfully new to it. Neither could I hope to convince you that you're wrong, given that so much has been written on the subject by much better people than I could ever hope to be (starting with Aristotle).
We don't have too... I really couldn't care less. And people like you are the reason the famous 2nd Amendment was written. Anticipating that government can always become increasingly tyrannical, if it gets to a point where it is unbearable, people will have the means to fight back. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a FREE state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." I really hope that it never reaches that point, because it would be a tragedy. But if it does, those who really believe in freedom, personal responsability and individuality will be there to stand against all this nonsense that keeps creeping into their lives. It happened before and for the same reasons that are being discussed, so if necessary, it can happen again...
I think Buffett has repeatedly proven himself to be a better big-picture guy than anyone you know or have even heard of.
A VERY powerful man called this behavior "smart." - Trumpie the Apprentice? 40,000,000 people agreed ...... - What nonsense are you referring to? As for how many people Buffett pays the health insurance of .. it is none. Private company health insurance just like salary are earned not given.
If you look hard enough you'll discover your referenced sentence is the lead into the article. It has nothing to do with my personal views. I post articles for one reason only, in order to judge the temperature of the discussion they generate. ET is a quite adequate social laboratory reflective of disparate points of perception.
My apologies, then. The tenor of the opening comment was dismissive, and I just assumed you concurred since you posted it and did not bother to comment otherwise. I will try to be less presumptuous next time. But now that you brought it up, where do you stand on Buffett's position and zerohedge's disparagement of him?
Banjo - To make that clear it would have been better to include the headline banner again in the first post as well. I also mistakenly thought that the thread topic was your sentiment and will keep in mind why it is you posts these articles to begin with.
Donald Trump in the second debate where he said his ability to lower his tax rate to single digits made him smart (and not unqualified to be president). 40,000,000 people voted for him to be president. Private company health insurance might be a form of compensation, but it's still health insurance that is purchased and managed. Wouldn't it be better if he could just pay people more instead of having to buy health insurance for them because they can't do it themselves?