The Real Truth of the State of the Health Service

by Union member Tue Mar 20, 2007 15:30

I read today that Labour have vowed to scrap any deals that Mary Harney enters into with her friends to profit from the building, with tax payers money, private hospitals on public lands. All voters must ask candidates when being canvessed to give the same pledge.
The plan that Harney has hatched would copperfasten the two tier system where the wealthy will receive fast top class servcies while the rest of us must wait and accept whatever happens to be available at the time. Patients are already suffering from this type of "russian roulette" service.

Regarding the conference mentioned, should union members working at the venue consider not co-operating with this event. After all, these are the people that are working to deny us our National Health Service and seeking to replace it with a system from which they can profit?

by Jim O'Sullivan Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:59

Harney's podcast is the usual slight of hand antics and spin. She never states that she will create a service which will have equality of access. In Harney's world only money talks. If you don't have any, tough.Her objective is to privatise the Health Service along the lines of the American system and she knows that if she were honest and stated clearly her intentions, the people of Ireland would say no. Harney and her friends are neither progressive or democrats. They exist to line the pockets of the chosen few and turn each citizen into a customer to be exploited at every hands turn. And as has been previously stated, they don't mind having to walk over a few corpses on the way. Money has become their god.
In her sort tenure in the Health Ministry, Harney's only achievement has been to see the for-profit healthcare sector mushroom. This is borne out by the fact that the for-profit sector has now grown to such an extent that it is organising annual conferences. The second such will be held on 21st March next in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. (see www.privatehealth.ie) Not surprisingly, the Minister herself will be opening the conference.
Reading through the programme, nowhere is to be found concern for the patient. All focus is on the money making opportunities. The conference will agonise over questions such as "Should the private sector be a low cost provider for the State or maintain it's premium product stance?" Maintaining a "premium product stance" is shorthand for keeping those with little money out. They will also question, "whether the government will succeed in delivering an efficient low-wait service" and it they do "how far will demand for private healthcare be undermined?" No doubt in the backrooms at next weeks conference Harney will be busy reassurring these parasites that all will be well for she will push ahead with the building of foundations that will expand privatisation in the short term and should she return to power she will finish the job. The cheque books will be out in earnest.
The upcoming general election should be about a single issue and that is the saving of the National Health Service. If Harney were to get another 5 year term, there would be nothing left to save after that.

by Poster Sun Mar 18, 2007 09:56

PD's have a cheek- they have rented billboard sites- I cannot get the image but a physical
description of the poster should be enough:-

A large Mary harney face on the left.
Three sentences writ large:-
"A+E quicker".
"Waiting Lists quicker "

.... "Let's Finish the Job"

One wonders how many dead bodies they will climb over to achieve
liberalisation of the "Market".

1+1=1

This is a brief summation of their flawed policies;
1. Mc Dowell has introduced a startling series of bad legislation (aided and abetted by FF)
2.Harney has liberalised the Old Folk's Homes,
(stolen Money from pension books)
The Pharmacy industry.
The hospitals.

Every policy introduced has enriched a section of the wealth community who are benefiting
(quids in) from the liberalisation policies.
They have not redressed or apologised to the old people they have stolen from
and yet they want to extract a % from the family home to pay for care, which
causes the main carers (the women) problems.

Through the FF/PD regime we have experienced a dilution of care for the
vulnerable, a use of the state to forward the richest in society and a
violence unwitnessed in 'peacetime' in this state.

[They have put the posters very, very, high up. you would need a ladder
to get up there and vandalise them- but sure , why not?]

Reward Offered................

by C Murray Sat Mar 17, 2007 20:07

The effect of the Privatisation policy on two families;

In the area I share with Mc Dowell_ his sidekick's health policy will:-

1. attempt to amalgamate Crumlin Hospital onto the Mater site.
This has to be said again. This means no gardens for recuperating kids :-(illnesses such as CF/leukaemia) it is
necessary to have a well planned and accessible kid's hospital -not a centre of excellence supported by
multi-national drug companies and consultant paychecks.
The Mater is badly accessed by Traffic and they are planning the hospital in the present car-park.
2. The St Luke's hospital was sold to a property developer, we use the Dubdoc service for a
small child with breathing difficulties.(Mary signed the amalgamation deal- st lukesd is going to
the St JamesComplex)

This means that between the city centre and Crumlin/harold's cross/ranelagh and rathmines we have no out clinic
facilities for CF/Astmathic kids.

Bertie does not get off this one- all this goes through the cabinet, he personally supported
(along with Diarmuid Martin) the Mater site. We have used Crumlin since I was a kid.

That = one clinic.
one hospital.
one dedicated cancer facility

going between two ward/constituency areas before a general election, they better not come to my
door or i shall invoke the new defence of personal property bill, which Mc dowell has gifted us with!

The election is not about the economy, it is about getting the fuckers out, because their
policies abdicate responsibility in community health care. Their policies are inherently
corrupt and arrogant.

Enough.

by Anarchy Rules Sat Mar 17, 2007 18:37

This would have been a lot funnier if an actor had pretended to be Mary Harney. The PD's could have marketed it and funded their election campaign from the proceeds.

Not since that poor bastard at the start of the latest Iraq war - the army guy who liased with the world's press, and insisted that everything was fine and that the yanks were going to get their arses kicked, despite the country falling down behind him - have I see such a blatant disregard for reality.

Mary tells us to go to the PD's website to be told how much the health service has improved over her tenure. Yeah, don't bother talking to the sick, the dying, and the healthcare professionals. Never mind the nurses, the lack of hospitals, beds, medicines and training. And if ya can't get to the PD's website, not to worry, they'll be offering assurances on billboards soon.

That's their one input into the health service - assurances.