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Healthcare revisited

March 12, 2010

One of the things that came out of the US healthcare débâcle was the curious false dichotomy that the only two possible approaches to healthcare were the NHS or the current American system. Now, the American healthcare system has many things going for it:
America has the highest quality treatment of any country in the world, [...]

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The way we were.

August 15, 2009
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Life used to be very simple. You found a husband, got married, got pregnant. A few people skipped the middle bit, but not so many as tipped the social balance.
When the time came, you tied a tea towel round the bed head, hung on for grim death and gave birth.
If you’d been fortunate enough to [...]

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Fat is not a political issue.

March 23, 2009
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The news this week that the state was handing over £3million a year to Weight Watchers, and Slimmers World, to persuade the ‘deserving poor’ to shed some of their lard, incensed me.
It came hard on the heels of a government report lambasting ministers for spending vast sums of money on “ineffective and [...]

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Marching towards an imposed morality……..

March 17, 2009
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All law is imposed morality. Law is never neutral; it rewards certain behaviours and agreement with those values doesn’t make them any less of an imposed morality. Despite the fact that it stakes a high moral purpose, particularly after the excessive law making of Tony Blair’s government, and Gordon Brown’s claims [...]

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Skeletons in the cupboard.

March 11, 2009
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On Monday 9 March 2009, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme broadcast How They Squander Our Billions, a documentary on government projects including the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NPfIT had an initial announced cost of £2.3bn which rose to £6.2bn and later £12.7bn. A key objective of the NPfIT is the [...]

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