Had a new job that took up heaps of time and temporarily forgot that I should actually be causing some outrage.
NZ, New Zealand – your public health system is in the hands of incompetents. If you don’t have health insurance please get it because the current National government will have destroyed the system for which you have paid billions over the years (smokers – and cigarette companies “Thanks!!!” you’ve paid more than twice the value of the “system” over the last 30 years) within it’s current electoral term. The idiot Ryall is most responsible.
However the idiot Ryall is only the most obviously knobbish clown who believes he controls a system dominated by senior medical professionals the majority of whom have absolutely no interest in the health of the nation (or even the world – they move around a lot) but enormous interest in milking a system that is a catastrophe but provides to (and I mean provides – they earn about a quarter of what of they get paid) these people about $1/4 mil p.a. for turning up to refer terribly sick / damaged citizens to their surgeon friends who also get paid the same amount to then refer the poor buggers to a private health system so long as you’ve paid your premiums !!!! . . . and then it’s the same two f…king arseholes who are your docs getting paid again for the same work !!!!
No insurance = waiting (a looooooong time) in the already paid for public system – but it would be hoped by the government and those same medical professionals that the cancer / heart problem kills you before you disturb the (above described) system so we don’t waste time on a stupid person who worked like a dog and paid tax for many years (so didn’t form a company and employ hordes of accountants to make sure you didn’t contribute fairly [thanks Mr “TradeMe” Morgan for letting us know that’s the fact !!!])
UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!
Of course there are Boards and Chief Executives / Chief Operating Officers who are paid huge fees and salaries to watch over the expenditure – thank the higher power that these independent people are making sure the money is spent judiciously – WRONG !!!!
The Boards are composed of special interest parties, for whom the citizenry are asked to vote (not many bother) having no concept of how entirely useless they are, and the CE’s / COO’s get amazing salaries because they are ex-nurses (doctors wouldn’t waste their time – they make tons more money !) who provide (according to the idiot Ryall) “Clinical Leadership” HA HA HA !!!
That’s like asking the monkey that was trained to go into space to take command of the Shuttle – “I’m really good at all those thousands of things that nurses are really good at but what the hell – how about I take control of the money for which I have bugger all training and experience other than an MBA (joke!!!) fully paid for !!!
If I was a nurse then I wanted to nurse (in theory – it seems that there are totally unsuitable people getting into that profession too) NOT run a business worth billions! “I’m not trained – it’s not my calling – but the only way I can make more money is by getting into a stream that I don’t understand but will give it a jolly good crack . . . show me those numbers again – haven’t a clue what they mean but seeing as I’ve forgotten the patients I’m sure it’ll be all good!
We should all be revolting – I know I am !!!!!