If they want to pick and choose, then we have a right to pick and choose if we pay the taxes for it, surely?

I suspect Sociofascists and Authoritarian enforced collectivists secretly want this kind of vindictive “administration”.

No, wasn’t Polly (can’t remember who).

But yes, the ‘thinking’ behind it is exactly the same as this dog-in-the-manger attitude here; if all can’t have it, no-one shall have it!

Private security companies cannot be far behind.

There is a Science Fiction story somewhere about a society so keen on equality that the government paid for plastic surgery to make the pretty as ugly as everyone else. I simply point to the better health outcomes of the Right handed and demand a Herodian approach in the name of equality.

Tim adds: Naomi Klein was the first. The short story was Kurt Vonnegut. The Handicapper General.

Make up your mind – Private or NHS. Doesn’t apply to the work of consultants though, does it?

But yes, there is something particularly galling about the actions of the health service apparatchiks here. If she’s getting free treatment anyway, as she is entitled too, why should they complain because she wants to add another (paid for) service..?

“Ministers say it is unfair on patients who cannot afford such top-up drugs and that it will create a two-tier NHS.”

I wonder when they will crack down on private security firms? After all, we have paid for the current police ‘service’ out of our taxes, so paying extra for extra policing must be a no-no, on this basis?

Yes.

Let us now wait for a New Labour minister to say that the media are just arguing statistics on these deaths, that of course a single death is a tragedy for the family, but that equality is a goal worthy of sacrifice.

Left handed people die seven years before Right handed people. Time the NHS took action to correct this injustice. I suggest killing every tenth Right handed baby at birth.