Tamarit said:
what annoys me most after my type 1 has been discovered and I have replied 55years on Insulin . My you,ve cost the NHS a lot!!!
You should reply "Not even half as much as the Saturday night drunks that the NHS seem to have no issues with treating." If there's one thing that incenses me about anyone yelling about 'how much' someone's health problem is costing the NHS ... it's the Friday and Saturday night drunks who are mollycoddled by the Police, Ambulance and A & E services and even thought of as 'funny' by some.
I really do object to hearing that a pregnant diabetic woman couldn't get an ambulance when she was in ketoacidosis and pregnant women in labour are being turned away from hospitals because there isn't enough staff or beds to cope, elderly people are dying of cold and starvation on the wards - yet we're watching programmes on TV about Police, Ambulances and A & E collecting the drunks off the streets every weekend and dealing with their self inflicted accidents and injuries. These drunkards were fit and well enough to get dolled up at the weekend and go and spend their money in whatever pubs and clubs they frequent. They're well enough to find their own way home.
It also incenses me when I hear people blaming 'foreigners' for coming over here to sponge off our NHS when in fact the majority of immigrants come here to work, they work hard often for lower pay, and they pay taxes and they pay into our system of care too, not to mention the number of immigrants who actually STAFF the NHS and work the God awful hours it demands.
Then it's the 'diabetics' who are growing out of all proportion and using up all the NHS resources. It's all propaganda which our Governments spew out and hope the mindless minions will fall for it and sadly, they do. That sort of propaganda sets man against man and it's all done for a reason. While we're all fighting about 'who to blame' for the Global recession, the rise in the cost of living, the debt crisis ... our Government is chuffed to bits we're all occupied arguing and blaming each other instead of focussing on the higher ups who've made off with and are still making off with our money.
Sort the drunks out, fine them if they're found to be drunk and incapable and putting themselves in danger of injury and harm. Charge them for wasting Police, Ambulance and Hospital time - or would that cause some people who actually work for our Police, Ambulance and Hospitals a little embarrassment because they like to 'enjoy' themselves to excess too when they're off duty? Personally, I've been drunk to oblivion twice in my life, neither time was it intentional, I just can't handle alcohol. I was in my late teens both times it happened and I was totally mortified and humiliated by my behaviour, so much so that I just decided alcohol wasn't worth the trouble.
But we now seem to have a sector of society that measures its own worth by how much alcohol it can consume, how rat***** it can get, how stupefied and how it can get away with using police, ambulance and hospital services as taxis and nursemaids. Drunks might be funny. But they're really not THAT funny. But maybe the Government has a soft spot for them, could that possibly be that if it wasn't for the drunks they'd lose a lot of tax revenue? Is that why they don't mind the cost to the NHS whereas diabetics aren't paying enough alcohol tax to merit decent treatment?
When we have a society that can refuse a pregnant woman in labour a hospital bed while we can scrape up the drunks from the street without a problem ... we have a society with it's priorities very, very wrong.
:shh: I'll shut up now :shh: