Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Politics, elections, and cofunding

England seems to be in turmoil now that elections are just 2 days away. Both Gordon Brown for labour and Nick Clegg for the Liberals bang on and on about fairness......

The more we hear and think the less fairness there seems to be. We always wonder why we pay far more tax as a married couple, we could save money by divorcing. Is that fair, yet when Conservatives try to partially redress this imbalance they are slated as robbing the poor to subsidise the rich?

Why do our taxes pay for the police to crack down on heroin abuse yet at the same time our NHS prescribe it free to registered addicts in Brighton? Crazy! Is it fair that my taxes fund this waste?

I saw a paper showing how chemotherapy costs more to treat "large" people. Specifically those with larger body surface area, or more skin, as they need higher doses of expensive drugs! Is it fair that thin people pay the same or more taxes as they are more likely to be in work than overweight lay abouts who cost the health service more?

It seems we will be in for a period of austerity after the budget. It must affect health service funding. A TV program last night suggested a possible solution might be "co-funding" where the patient pays part of the cost of treatment. Amazing how something so obvious and now necessary has so far been rejected and in one breast cancer case barred a lady from further NHS treatment!

Ah, we must vote! But is our voting system fair? We live in a safe seat area, so in fact our vote counts for nothing! Fairness????? We need an investigation into our rigged elections! I was pleased to hear Anne Widdecombe MP talking on the radio two days ago. As a Christian she was standing down from parliament, but said it was now a "house of ill repute"

Thank God our main loyalty is to our heavely home!