NHS Doctors Turning to Substance Abuse Amid Rising Levels of Stress and Burnout
24th June 2017
How about that great government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in America?
Reminder for the dimwitted: When a service is free, the demand increases to infinity — and eventually you run out of other people’s money to pay for it.
June 24th, 2017 at 21:20
“When a service is free, the demand increases to infinity ”
Not so. If your sink is backed up, and unclogging it (a service) is free, you will not continue to demand service once the sink is free-running again. Unless, of course, you posit a huge number of people who clog up their own sinks on purpose just so they can then avail themselves of the free service, which is absurd on its face.
Some “services” are self-limiting (after all, how many haircuts can you wear at one time?), a fact which you and the other conservatives conveniently forget to mention. It ruins your tidy little Article of Faith.
June 25th, 2017 at 16:50
We’re not talking about sinks here, but health care. An unclogged sink is obvious to all; when it comes to health care, look up the definition of ‘hypochondriac’. Your red herring just slipped away.
June 26th, 2017 at 10:25
So you are positing a huge number of hypochondriacs swamping the system? How many, as a proportion of population, do you think there are?
Otherwise, we must assume a huge number of people who deliberately make themselves ill in order to tap into that free health care. “I wanna get some free health care, so I think I’ll contract malaria this week.” More absurdity.
And I notice you conveniently dodged the challenge to your Universal Truth concerning “free” and “infinite demand”. I guess that lets you continue to spout nonsense. Go to it. We know the truth.