We need to sort out the ‘national ‘elf’. It’s in a ‘crisis’. People are dying. Unfortunately, not enough people to make the system function in any way which may be perceived as ‘efficient’, normal, cost-effective or probably even ‘viable’. We’d need to kill off approximately 20 million of the population to even make a start on that.

Why 20 mil? Because that would take us back to almost the population of 1948 when someone had the fucking brilliant but impossible idea of ‘providing free health care for an entire nation!’ So Nye Bevan invented the NHS. Like Frankenstein before him, he had no idea of the ‘monster’ that in reality he’d been responsible for.

In 1948 you bought a syringe for life. 2 needles, one as a spare, and that was it. You wore a white jacket. Forever. No matter how much blood was splattered on it, washed it once a week. Or two. So high set up costs, low ongoing ones. Nowadays there’s 276 industries just providing disposable stuff for hospitals. Gloves, masks, gowns, overalls, coveralls, hats, shoe-covers, ear muffs, nostril plugs, knee-warmers… But half of it isn’t fit for purpose, the other half is made by bra makers to enrich themselves.

Same with drugs. In 1948 you had aspirin or if it was really bad, penicillin, the newly discovered wonder-drug. Available at 7s 11d from a geezer who made them in his garage. Next to his Model T Ford which he was re-boring. If those meds didn’t cure you, you died. Nowadays drug provision to the NHS is a get-rich scheme for third rate Pharma companies manufacturing medicines which have passed their original licences.

And although they invented cancer in… long time ago, probably, they didn’t call it that, they called it death. Cancer was really ‘invented’ when they worked out what it was, where it was, and how to get rid of it. But that didn’t come cheap.

Best of all though is that with NHS supervision, we can all live forever. No more ‘3 score and ten’, that’s the new ‘three baker’s dozens plus 4’. But that means not just that we have nearly 30% more people than in 1948 but we have a much higher percentage of old people. Who get ill more often. And require help. And care.

Therefore, to make the NHS ‘sustainable’ and take it out of ‘crisis’ we need a complete restructuring, to align it to the needs of not just the current time, but to the projected needs of the future. And to do that you need clever people. So that eliminates the government. And the fuckwit opposition who just want to throw more money at it. Which, as we all know, don’t work.

We need to either do that or leave it in the hands of Sid James and Barbara Windsor in Carry on Doctor. Or just have a compulsory ‘end of life’ limit for everyone, say… 77… 85… 46 (NOOOOOOO!!!)

Happy, healthy Monday

A xxxx