Sick Wogs Cough Up

Now that the Health and Social Care Act has had time to bed in and efficientise the NHS, the Minister for Health and News Corporation is naturally looking for new ways to ensure that the working conditions are appropriately Chinese. Since the Government is far more interested in wog-bashing than in public health, it was only a matter of time before medical professionals were conscripted into the border police; and the Department for Profitable Healthcare is now considering whether non-whites and people with funny names should be required to produce either a certificate of insurance or a credit card before being given treatment. A spokesbeing for the ministry gave due assurance that no-one would be denied urgent treatment and that "vulnerable groups" would be exempt from charging until they could be duly demonised. Then again, the spokesbeing also proclaimed that the NHS was paid for by "families living in the UK" rather than by taxpayers generally: a rather significant accounting error which, along with the thirty-year drive to privatise, may possibly help to explain the present financial shortfall.