Dear Sir,
Our Prime Minister, Mr. Perry Gladstone Christie, when he has “a bee in his bonnet” refuses to listen to any recommendations when he has made up his mind on anything particularly if those recommendations come from his highly expensive “consultants” who, after all, are paid from “the people’s money” not his.
I refer to his idiotic idea for National Health Insurance; I know this has been discussed already ad nauseum, but please allow me to put in my “five cents.”
Quite recently I was forced to visit that hell-hole called the Princess Margaret Hospital, but only to get the results of a prostate examination, I thought!! I arrived at the prescribed time of 11:00am to find some fifty people in a waiting room set out for forty patients. Good start, I thought. After checking-in I was instructed “to take a seat,” very funny! They appeared to be calling patients every thirty minutes or so!?!? No wonder the queue didn’t seem to be getting any shorter especially as fresh “lambs to the slaughter” kept arriving.
By 1:30pm wonder of wonders a seat became available for my 70 year old body to rest, however at 3:00pm, on the dot, the reception team cleared off, so, tough if any of the remaining, approximately, forty patients, which included me, had to make a fresh appointment!
Yet more wonders, my name was called at 3:15pm, I went into the surgery, was given my results and told I didn’t need to return until this time next year and I was out by 3:20pm! Mr. Christie, is this some very sick joke you are playing, almost four and a half hours wait for five minutes to get a simple exam result?
Rather like your denial of a referendum result, you are refusing to accept the recommendations of your highly paid foreign consultants, who advise against starting NHI on the 1st. January, 2016. It is patently obvious our present system will not be able to handle the considerably increased patient traffic that NHI will force into the system, and, of course, you do not appear to be doing anything to alleviate the problems, and to confirm, this visit beats my previous worst experience, and in the same clinic, by some twenty minutes.
I guess the only way our overly coddled ruling class might get the idea is to give up their expensive private health care, again, paid for by the over-taxed masses, and join us “in the trenches” and see what a substantial number of your voters have to put up with for no other reason than we are POOR and can afford no better.
Yours in agony,
Harry Strachan
