The NHS Dustbin.

Four million Americans are personally bankrupted by medical bills. With  $10,000 for the birth of a child, as is likely under Boris, I imagine most of us would be in the same boat. But that’s not the point here. Since 2010 the demands on the NHS have skyrocketed. This has been put down to us getting older and OK living longer. But that run up to our universal final option, death, hasn’t changed that much. You’re healthy, your body gives up and you die but I feel there’s something else contributing to this rise in demand. In those ten years after 2010 (financial crisis and Conservative austerity) our whole life cycle as changed. Kids have poorer education, don’t have opportunities and throughout their working lives get stressed and depressed; homelessness and food banks etc etc.  All of this contributes to ill health, not in our last days but throughout the sixty years of our adult life. I suspect this harmful social malaise expresses itself in a myriad of physical illnesses. Put any organism under pressure and it will get ill. On holiday in Greece we’ve had to see a doctor twice. Once a home visit, doctor arrived in an hour and the other time his waiting room was empty and he treated Mothermouse on the spot with all the time in the world. Contrast that with trying to see a doctor in the UK. It’s like a high-pressure production line. It’s not inefficiency it’s that we’re all getting ill far more often due to a sick society. It’s not about throwing money at the NHS it’s because the NHS has become the dustbin of our sick society. If we address that the NHS crisis will melt away. AND we’ll all feel a lot happier to!