Monday, 20 June 2011

NHS and costs

We keep hearing how the NHS is short of money yet we spend £3 billion on the treatment of drug adicts £730 million on providing methadone £1.7 billion on benefits to these adicts and a further £1.2 billion looking after their children. We spend millons on free contraception and sex education yet we have the highest pregnancy rate of single girls in Europe. We spend millions on medication to wean people of alcohol and tobacco. Yet at the end of the day no matter how much the state spends on these treatments the only thing that will make these people stop are the people themeslves and that comes from will power and that doesn't come in a package or a medicine bottle. We spend millions of IVF treatment, that was unheard of 25 years ago. Now I am sorry for people who can't have children through natures way but perhaps that's how nature works and if we tamper with it it brings other problems. We are spending over £2 billion treating the third world with preventative medicine with mass immunisation agains certain diseses. We hope to save the lives of an extra over 4 million children by 2015, all well and good, but this means an extra 4 million mouths to feed in an area of the world that is struggling to feed itself now. Europe sees mass immigration from underdeveloped countries with people looking for food and jobs in a world that no longer requires mass labour because of automation and robotics in industries that a few years ago were labour intensice. We see things increasing in price countries that have nenver known want now see the possibilities of going short of these things especially with fuel and food becoming more scarce. When these commodoties become even scarcer the people won't bother where they come from they will demand that their governments  go and get them no matter the cost  even if it means military force to get them. We are living in very sad but more dangerous times.





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