At one time the Health Bill seemed based on some coherent principles, but no longer. Martin McKee (professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK writing in the BMJ) can’t understand it, and is accustomed to teaching on such things. I can’t keep track of what the current situation is. One of my few rules of thumb, I’d hesitate to say principles, general or otherwise, but an idea I apply and await disproof of is that when people are making things more complicated, and I can’t keep track, it is because they are criminals if it is business, or generally dishonest or malevolent in some other way. And not people to trust or do business with if it is possible to avoid doing.
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Understanding the Bill: Impossible
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Meanwhile in London (Bevan’s Run)
Sunday, January 15th, 2012Clive Peedell et al arrive in Whitehall protesting the mess being made of the NHS. I’d be there if I wasn’t a long way away.
OK, it was an interesting election
Monday, May 31st, 2010The coalition of Whigs and Tories might be interpreted in several ways, but let us first see what they achieve.