Today's discussion about the news
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Abolishing the PCTs was staggeringly stupid and very damaging though the Lib Dems can be blamed for that too.
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Yep, that's a fair point.
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Two posts earlier, you were claiming that the UK spends plenty - it can't be both
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It has historically underspent but post covid the amount of spending has gone up considerably. The spending is mechanistic - people are getting older and need more treatment, rather than more spending on investment etc.
The system encourages spending in the wrong place - it under invests as investment is politically tricky to do.
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That's not what the Kings Fund thinks.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Seems to have been a recent report that is scathing about the internal market competition that the Tories put in place.
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illegally occupying power continues deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure and assets
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There’s no-one to argue for the US being amazing anymore sorry.
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It's consistently much larger than the UK.
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It's also a place where lowly public servants and car wash attendants can well into earn six figures. Apparently.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I just found that mismatch between expenditure and health outcomes (going in opposite directions) astounding. But I'm sure that somehow the US , health industry would find a way to brand it as a success.
My guess would be that there's an enormous disparity between the rich who can afford gold-plated healthcare and the poor, and that it's deaths of poor mothers who are pushing the average mortality up.
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Not just maternal mortality. Life expectancy is significantly lower than the UK across the board.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I think that's partly down to them being on average even fatter than we are as a nation.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Not a newspaper, just a comfort blanket to those who think Labour have no right to be in government.
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It must be easy to hate them when they attack your leftie heroes.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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May as well, nobody else in this place would. Good luck dealing with this obsession of yours.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
- Heart disease: 702,880
- Cancer: 608,371
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 227,039
- COVID-19: 186,552
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 165,393
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,382
- Alzheimer’s disease: 120,122
- Diabetes: 101,209
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 57,937
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis: 54,803
I believe accidents includes all the opiate overdoses.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Does it include being shot?
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Hmmmm. As I’d assume shooting someone is a deliberate act and not an accident then it doesn’t fit into any of those categories. Would it be mischievous to suggest they want to hide that number?
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Surely walking into a fast moving bullet you couldn't see coming would be an accident, what else could it be?
Hopefully no Americans will read this so the sarcasm will shine through.
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Dementia less than I'd expect. Maybe if you go earlier due to stuff like heart disease then it's less likely you'll die from going gaga?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
That’s how it works here. Son’s MIL & FIL both had dementia. Neither had that as their cause of death.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Dementia is really the killer is it, usually it's some other condition such as pneumonia that kills them off.
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You could say the same with most illnesses e.g Covid or even cancer
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IIRC a lot of gunshot deaths are accidental; the total gunshot deaths is 40-50k a year
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