It's all very well helping people but we do have our own to think of.

As I stated in my previous entry the NHS is standing in a cesspool of defict, currently at £800 million. We have honest, genuine people who have paid into the system and worked their lives in Britain being rejected life quality enhancing, prolonging or saving drugs because of "lack of funds". Now as you are aware, our NHS is a wonderful thing which was set up in order to righteously elp all us British who needed medical care, despite the cost. This way those who could not afford insurance were not left to die or sick which in-turn plundges the family into deeper crisis. This way you didn't have to worry about getting insurance because no matter what you have had in the past, there will always be a hospital with its doors open for you. Though an NHS is a wonderful thing, it is being ruined. One side by Labours incessant destruction of the NHS through ill-management and the other by the world. Our NHS is the only national health service open to the world. Health tourism, where people come to Britain as tourists in order to recieve medical treatment - usually give birth - costs us £200 million annually...£200 million of tax payers money is not spent on them, but merely who ever wishes to abuse our system.

However, it gets worse... Africa, as you know, is rife with AIDs and 2.4 million of the 3.1 million AIDs related deaths are within Africa. In 2005 alone roughly 3.8 million Africans contracted AIDs. Now that is important because it's been discovered that 3 in 4 new HIV sufferers in Britain are African immigrants, coming to this country with the prime intention of getting medical attention from Britain:

"Three in four of all new heterosexual cases of HIV in Britain last year were among African immigrants, according to official figures.
The vast majority of them contracted the disease overseas before moving to Britain, says the Health Protection Agency (HPA). "

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23375521-details/3+in+4+new+HIV+cases+in+African+immigrants/article.do

Now it is all very nice and lovely that we can help these needy people, of course I agree. However, it is illogical, nieve and outright utopian that we can continue with this. Our NHS is suffering and people in this country, people who the NHS was set up for, are being refused treatment and all the while African immigrants come here for AIDs treatment costing £15,000 a year. It's utterly impossible that our NHS can take this kind of exploitation battering and people need to take their head of the clouds and realise that. Humanitarianism is excellent, it's helped/helps many needy people but they need to look at the facts and realise certain things and this is one of them.

This is not a right wing view, this view is not and should not be affiliated with anything other than sense. This is not about refusing to help people, this is about accepting that we can't help everybody. Those who disagree with me would maybe like to explain what will happen when our NHS has to be privatised due to debt and the lower classes of Britain are put in a posistion where they cannot get or afford insurance or what will happen when profiteers get their hands on the NHS. Well given that the only people will disagree with me are charlatans, I feel I must inform the readers of this entry what will happen. If the NHS is privatised the people who buy it only do it for a simple reason and that's profit...FACT. These people knowing that everybody needs medical treatment will then push up the prices in order to extract as much profit as possible, squeezing for every penny and they will be perfectly able to do this. Then, with the rises of prices, insurance companies, who are also only seeking a profit, will logically increase their prices in order to cover the costs of the expensive treatment and make a profit. This will lead to expensive insurance costs that will hit everyone in the pocket, from rich to poor. Though the problems do not end here, the expensive insurance will mean people in poorer families cannot afford it which means that if any of them do need treatment it will plundge them into serious deprivation, increasing the ever growing gap between rich and poor and increase the amount of people in the relative poverty bracket - something we've fought hard to decrease...Or of course, for those who don't have insurance or the means of rasing the money will simply be left to suffer or die. Now of course we could get rid of the problem of people being left high and dry by Governemtnal intervention which will clearly cost the Government masses of money granted the expensive medical care costs, so that will achieve nothing. All the while the people of Britain will suffer, either suffer to a lesser extent through high costs, to the greater extent where they are left without anything or the Government will have to spend large amounts of tax money helping those who have no insurance which will clearly effect the people of Britain because it diverts resources. Mean while, those in other countries who travel for medical care will simple go somewhere else.

Now you cannot speak bad of these people who seek medical care, you should not because they are not to blame. use an ounce of empathy, put yourself in their situation and think for a second what you would do if you suspect that you have HIV, or need to give birth to a baby or anything else that requires medical attention. Would you A) stay in your country which has poor medical facilities so you either die from your disease or giving birth or B) Go to a country who offers free medical care who will help you?...If you have a gram of intelligence you'd choose option B. They are not to blame, they are only doing what anybody else in their situation would do. We are to blame here, we are creating our own problem.

Now like I said, it's very nice wanting to help everybody but it's not logical or practical. It cannot be sustained and we will pay a heavy price for it.