PEOPLE POWER STOPS HEALTH SCHEME (From Wirral Globe)

• "Recently I have been starting to lose my faith in people. This is mostly to do with the general apathy that is contained in this country. However, I am extremely glad to see that people are willing to see stand up and say no, respectively.
  
  However I think this short "victory" will be a very short one indeed, mostly due to the scheme being ONLY postponed and not cancelled altogether.
  
  Allow me to make things clearer. A lot of people seemingly cried out against this scheme because of the way it was proposed to us in the form of the blue notice offering the 'opt out' system, however we have been swindled still. Privacy and confidentiallity was not the schemes aim, so why is it the mostly brought up aspect of this scheme?
  
  The fact remains that whether our private and confidential information be in America, Norway, Australia, or Britain's Cambidge, wont take away the fact of what was being pushed onto us. A call in scheme, to take stress off hospitals.
  
  It is my understanding that hospitals are there to diagnose the Ill, and even better to treat them. what can a person on the phone tell you about your illness? or your conditions? can they give you an X-Ray over the phone? can they give you an MRI scan over the phone? how can someone hundreds of miles away even concieve of the idea of telling the sick and the ill that they shouldn't go to hospital?
  
  I would like to know what would happen when, not IF, but WHEN someone falls under greater illness as a result of misdiagnosis from a misinformed and undertrained person working a few hundred miles away at a call centre over the phone, what will people say? How will people react when they realise that this is a way of destroying the relationship between the doctor and the patient.
  
  THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING TOLD SYMPTOMS AND SEEING SYMPTOMS. that's why doctors are there! Isn't it?
  
  This might sound like I'm seeing something thats not there, but this is logic. Doctors are there to see the symptoms of a patient and then to treat it as required.
  
  The new scheme was never intended for us to fully understand what was going to happen, otherwise they would have told us, and very intelligantly allowed the public to volunteer, as anyone with half a brain and half a business mind would have understood.
  
  It is becoming more apparent to me in the last two years that this country is trying to push the idea of a privatised health scheme onto us. This is just one small step of achieving this, shunning the public with silly notions that the scheme is to make things better.
  
  I say again, what is better than a doctor seeing the symptoms of the patient?
  
  As we all should be aware of by now Tesco, the huge supermarket has been branching out to new levels of customer services, one of these int he past year has been buying shares in the NHS.
  
  What are tesco's interests in the NHS? And even more to the point, who's best interest are NHS going to take, the taxpayers? who now only account for a percentage of hospitals funds, or the companies who are buying themselves into the NHS? tell me, if someone was giving you £10 for cleaning their windows and someone else gave you £200 for the same job, who would you favour more?
  
  This sneaky scheme seems to part of a larger one that people are overlooking. I understand how important data confidentiality is to some people, however, confiedentiality is not the cause, and will not be the outcome of this scheme.
  
  This is very obviously part a hand into privatising our National Health Service. and while you might decide to ignore this notion as a conspiarcy, please, please i urge you to look at the facts of what is and what was being offered in this scheme.
  
  You fought rightly but for the wrong reasons, and what a short victory it will be when the health service will be turned into a circus of untreated patients due to misundertsanding, misinformation, misdiagnosis, and misleading.
  
  I hope I am wrong, I really do, but this wont end, and you all know it."
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