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Privatise the Geriatric Sector
March 14th, 2012
It seems these days that there are old people everywhere: crowding out doctors surgeries, filling up buses, spilling out of hospitals and driving care homes to the point of bankruptcy. Everywhere I go someone in slippers is shuffling along behind their frame on wheels, going no-where fast with no meaningful purpose in mind.Just what is the point of all these slipper clad wrecks, washed up in the land of the living?
They make it more difficult for me to get a doctor’s appointment for my young children, they cloy up the NHS to breaking point and they are not prepared for a life that has gone on well beyond anything regarded as decent or reasonable.
This is not a cautionary tale. I have no edifying reassurance about the wisdom of the aged, no fable about the old, nor have I come to see beyond my heartless economic view.
I just wonder why are we so desperate to sustain life beyond its normal course, to the point of making certain resources unobtainable for the young, out of reach of the real living and rammed full of the not yet dead.
As we progress through life, surely the onus should be shifted from the state to the individual, requiring proof that they have provided for their elongated ‘old age’, making individuals accountable for their desire to live to the point of senility with mobility.It is time to privatise the geriatric sector, and make the individual accountable for their care when they can no longer reasonably provide it for themselves.
Those able to speak will argue ‘I paid my taxes, I have earned the right’. But those taxes only take you so far. They do not provide for a life that requires an army of agency support just to keep it hygienically clean whilst it continues to breathe.If medical advances have edged the elderly into the living incapable, clearly those medical advances need to be privatised in order to restrict them to only those that are financially able to take accountability for the outputs of this medical excellence.
A country where the old age masses outnumber the revenue generating minority is not a sustainable one, and our current population model is under question. Maybe not by Guardian readers, maybe not by the pro welfare Socialists, but certainly by business people like me who wonder when they will be able to access medical treatment for their children and taxpaying families under 60.
Privatise the Geriatric Sector
March 14th, 2012
It seems these days that there are old people everywhere: crowding out doctors surgeries, filling up buses, spilling out of hospitals and driving care homes to the point of bankruptcy. Everywhere I go someone in slippers is shuffling along behind their frame on wheels, going no-where fast with no meaningful purpose in mind.Just what is the point of all these slipper clad wrecks, washed up in the land of the living?
They make it more difficult for me to get a doctor’s appointment for my young children, they cloy up the NHS to breaking point and they are not prepared for a life that has gone on well beyond anything regarded as decent or reasonable.
This is not a cautionary tale. I have no edifying reassurance about the wisdom of the aged, no fable about the old, nor have I come to see beyond my heartless economic view.
I just wonder why are we so desperate to sustain life beyond its normal course, to the point of making certain resources unobtainable for the young, out of reach of the real living and rammed full of the not yet dead.
As we progress through life, surely the onus should be shifted from the state to the individual, requiring proof that they have provided for their elongated ‘old age’, making individuals accountable for their desire to live to the point of senility with mobility.It is time to privatise the geriatric sector, and make the individual accountable for their care when they can no longer reasonably provide it for themselves.
Those able to speak will argue ‘I paid my taxes, I have earned the right’. But those taxes only take you so far. They do not provide for a life that requires an army of agency support just to keep it hygienically clean whilst it continues to breathe.If medical advances have edged the elderly into the living incapable, clearly those medical advances need to be privatised in order to restrict them to only those that are financially able to take accountability for the outputs of this medical excellence.
A country where the old age masses outnumber the revenue generating minority is not a sustainable one, and our current population model is under question. Maybe not by Guardian readers, maybe not by the pro welfare Socialists, but certainly by business people like me who wonder when they will be able to access medical treatment for their children and taxpaying families under 60.
