Axe falls on NHS services - Telegraph

Hi, Soph, there's a new term for us, mind a discription of the term 'ring fenced budget'?

Have you heard anything else about the items in the article? I did notice a couple of things that make a certain measure of sense. Ie, sending terminal patients home at some point as long as they have a caregiver. My brother passed away less than 2 weeks ago. He was asked if he wanted to go home or to a hospice facility. Obviously he wanted to be at home and hard as it was on his wife, she preferred it also. In that situation, what would have been the point in his staying in the hospital? The important question though was, did he have a caregiver at home.

I fully believe the 'people' involved will do everything they can, it's what the government is liable to do that's potentially a problem.

It would be nice I think if this article proves to be untrue.

Is it all "righties", or is it more people who are truely concerned about the deficit?

Here's another article I ran accross today.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38249

That isn't quite right, Soph. It isn't totally everyone for themselves, but it's do what has to be done and do it responsibly. The country can not afford all these welfare programs, especially in the current economic situation.

There are lots of ways to provide health care for those who can't afford it without a massive overhaul bill that contains 8 or 9 new taxes. The democrats are disingenuous when they say the HCB won't cost us anything. We all know it will, just adding in the 'DR. fix makes it lose anything it might have gained.

If you listen to what they are doing, they are adding things to things that have nothing to do with them, just a way to sneak it in. Everyone wants to call repubs the party of no, they are saying no to this kind of stuff and being blamed for it not passing when the Dems have a majority. They can pass anything they want to if they themselves can get together.

I'm not a cold hearted person, but 99 weeks of unemployment insurance guarantees people will keep drawing rather than look for another line of work. I remember when I 1st knew of unenployment, it was 26 weeks full and 26 @ 1/2, and that was it. You had a year to find some kind of work. It wasn't nearly what you could make working either. So you got off your butt and found something, anything to have an income.

Things like cap and trade will do nothing to help the climate, but it will put a lot of money into the government and a lot of peoples pockets, including of course, Al Gore.

This country has managed all these years without all these progressives programs, why do we have to have them now?

This government has got to stop spending, but you can't have all these programs if you can't spend.

They want to talk about things like a value added tax. It will cause everything anyone buys to cost more, hitting every pocket book in the U.S.

And on and on....

Soph, the current 'sales tax' is per city and state. Not all cities and not all states have sales tax.

Also, it is a point of retail sales, tax, a vat is a tax that taxes every step of improvement throughout the manufacturing process. Multiple taxes are assigned in a vat.

We also have free health care, called medicaid, if you qualify.

It's beginning to look like yours is beginning to crumble a bit.