On the Bright Side

While our more thoughtful journalistic citizens shake their heads in sad consternation at the Government's unconstructive attitude to pay negotiations with strikers in the hated NHS, the more entrepreneurial wing of Britain's healthcare industry is demonstrating the advantage of intransigence. Ambulance journey consumers are increasingly motivated to utilise the services of private profiteers, at rates ranging from several hundred pounds to more than a thousand. Obviously this is far more efficient than taking money in tax and allowing unelected bureaucrats and civil servants to spaff it away on paramedically-inclined van drivers; especially as taxation is crude enough to affect the moneyed even when they are in the best of health.