June 24, 2007
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I know I’ve already mentioned Doctors recently, so I just want to say in advance that I haven’t got a particular bee in my bonnet about them (well any more than I have about anyone else). One of the contributors to this blog is training to be a physician and he seems a thoroughly decent chap.
OK, now that’s out of the way, on with the ranting. Dr Rant has criticised The Devil for his take-down of The British Medical Association who, as usual, are trying to get the Government to further restrict our liberty.
I left the following comment on both blogs:
It is a bad enough that the quacks managed to get their little guild recognised by the state, thereby artificially restricting the supply of medical care (causing untold pain and misery) and artificially increasing the size of their pay packets. But to have these pompous bone technicians lecture us about how we may or may not ‘go to hell in our own way’ is intolerable.Solution:
- End the last major closed shop in Britain (besides the legal racket) by abolishing the GMC and repealing all legislation regulating medicine.
- Split up the NHS and hand it over to local private mutual friendly societies with membership and voting rights to all citizens in that area.
- End all state funding of healthcare and medical training.
When the medical closed shop is ended, leading to a blossoming in the supply and diversity of medical care available; when quacks are effectively scrutinised and their services purchased at consortium prices by large friendly societies; and when doctors have to pay for their own training our of their own pockets—then they will be too busy competing with each other for work, like the rest of us have to, to have time to lecture us on how we live our lives.
You can see the fallout from that comment here.
Don’t be foolish and naive like I was. I went years without shopping around my insurance rates, and one day it dawned on me.. All I had to do was take 5 minutes and get some free quotes and boy, did I ever save some major $$ 