The side that is left out of our news...
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Real political issues, real opinions and real facts.
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which is currently under fire for rationing Alzheimer's drugs, will shortly publish its long-awaited plans for the treatment of obesity in adults and children."
- Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1951755,00.html
If you're living in Britain (mainly those in England ) and you have a disease, of no fault of your own, then you face being refused treatment because of the "lack of funds"...Lack of funds in the fourth richest country in the world, how is it possible that NHS funding can be almost trebled to almost £90 billion (per annum) yet the NHS persists to get worse, persists to refuse treatment and persists to cut jobs? I'll tell you why, because of mismanagement and idiotic decision from our Government...We now have paper pushers swamping our hospitals, we now have directors who aren't medically qualified bossing around actually medically trained Doctors, we have outright pathetic health policies such as this one and we have privatised sections of the NHS to deep pocketed profiteers. Profit is fine but not when it's a matter of life or death, a quality life or one without any quality. This has to stop.
Now onto the matter of this idiotic policy quoted...Has our incompetant Government not quite realised that the more you give everything and take away work the more people are willing to take any sort of responsability? Now obese children don't have to rectify their problem, they get treatment which I must admit I can see some sense to given that only obese children who face developing life threatening diseases. However, remember this policy in the context of the truth and that's that currently elderly people have to sell their homes for care, many people with Alzheimer's are being denied treatment, many drugs that can save lives are deemed "too expensive" and whilst our NHS sits in a £800 million spending defict. That's why this policy is not a good one. How about an obese child is put on a rigerous exercise program, remember these are children who are in danger of developing life threatening diseases and not children who are developing them, there's time to rectify their problem and that should done through natures way, the natural way, the way where people will take responsability for their actions, the cost effective way that achieves the same results. This policy costs roughly £8000 an operation, now come on, there is no need for such mindless, quick fix, illogical and irresponsable spending.
"The institute will recommend that severely overweight teenagers for whom other treatments have failed should be offered surgery,"
Unless the obesity is from biological reasons then exercise programs will work. Now i'm not prepared to sit back and let obese children have crucial money spent on them simply because they cannot be bothered to stop playing on their computer, stop buying so much junk food and start exercising. Like I said, this excludes those who are obese through no fault of their own. Now of course, the parents are to blame to a large extent for these children because they control, to the larger extent, their diet, the advertising companies are acting irresponsibly but are not to blame because the decision is ours, they do not force us into anything. The child, in this situation, isn't to blame for the most part unless they are an older child, say 14 + . Yes, you've heard me throw that word around alot in this entry, blame. Well there is blame because being obese is no laughing matter and does not require a sentimental approach.
This is not about taking something away from somebody, merely not giving them what they should not expect. The NHS is a wonderful idea though sadly the mismangement from our Government is destroying it. Though everybody pays into the NHS they cannot expect that everything is laid on for them because such is only possible in a utopian society, it can't happen. In a perfect world everybody would get treatment for everything they need and our NHS wouldn't be in a massive spending defict laying off large amounts of staff...But the reality is we are in a defict, we are laying off needed staff and with that people cannot get treated for everything however i'd much prefer that the funds we do have are used to help those who are dying or have a poor quality of life and cannot do anything to stop such and not to those who can do something about their problem but wont. This scheme could cost, as predicted, up to £2 million for the benefit of only 250 people, 250 people who can do something about their problem but refuse so their "treatment" is deemed to have failed. Consistant exercise and healthy eating will not fail for the bulk of the people.
We as people constantly look for that better day, but that better day will only come if accept it, we have to take responsible for ourselves and not rely on our government for everything. It's, at most, only slightly their fault through acceptance of advertising, but if we need to find somebody to blame then we need only look into a mirror. The Government can be held accountable for their blunders, their mismanagment and destruction of our NHS but unless you are a child then usally to the largest extent being obese is your fault and you can rectify it.
For more information on this problem that plagues our country, obesity amongst the British population, then please feel free to find a previous entry on my blog entitled "Do your bit...".