Private Health-Care is not human.

Capitalism has always been an idea that has fascinated me and horrified at the same time. Specially then it comes down to health-care. I come from a country that has mainly(All I think, but might be wrong) public health-care system, but I got drummed into my head by these Capitalist Yokels that a private health-care setting would be better run due to the fact that the owners would run it better as they would know where the money is coming from and going.

When I moved to Britain, I started working in a private Nursing Home. I am still getting over that experience. I just can't understand how people can make money out of elderly, mentally and physically ill people. I was led to believe that they would be better taken care of and that the staff would be better paid. But no on both accounts, staff get barely minimum wage. People don't usually work in healthcare for the money, but if your paying your staff pittance, then the care will reflect that. We're not talking big money, only enough to live on.

Plus these owners will try and save money on the most basic things. Food, staff training and get this heating! Instead they'll pay money for new wallpaper and carpets(In a fucking nursing home!!!) but that hoist that is provided and was bought second-hand and is missing a wheel has to do.

The care itself is horrible, and that's without considering that these people have lived through probably most horrific and era-changing times. Yet here they are, defecating themselves, eating food that a beggar would refuse and over-medicated as well.

Healthcare as far as I'm concerned should always be run by the local authority.

Healthcare is not a business. And you should never expect to make profit out of it, because if your making profit that means that someone is suffering which will set a whole row of dominoes falling. If a staff member calls in sick, that in return will put more pressure on rest of the staff. Which in turn will cause stress, that lowers the immune system, which in turn will cause more sickness. And in some cases these carers will be patients at the same healthcare system. And as such become more of a burden on society.

The most that healthcare should expect is to break even. The thing that councils and governments should bear in mind is that if they make sure that they run a good system, and managed to get a patient in and out in good condition, they can go to work sooner and hence pay taxes sooner. With happier healthy population, they might spend more money on other things, thus pay VAT! It's not exactly rocket-science but it does seem to bamboozle those accountants at City Hall who've got a way to personal relationship with their calculators, and who tend to think of people as statistics.

The day that people think that you should have to pay at a health-care setting to get a good treatment, is the day you stop being human.

And for those old folk it's the least they should expect from essentially building this country that we live in.

Good care shouldn't be optional, it should be mandatory.

There is one topic that crops up quite often, specially at work. It's seems to be a rather sensitive subject even though it's one of the most, if the not THE most, practised activity in the world. This topic is of course the one and only sex.

The reason it crops up quite often at work is simple. I work on a 18 bedded locked mental health unit, all MALE patient. So in some ways it's a bit like jail except with nicer staff. Except we don't have communal showers, of course.

Well one of the things that they're not allowed is sex. Well, actually that is not strictly true, their allowed to masturbate, but not allowed any stimuli for it like, porno mags, movies or even softcore porn... except under supervision from staff. Which has always tickled me. They're even forbidden to have The Sun (news)paper. Yet it's okay for them to watch Viva and 4Music!

It just boggles the mind a bit that these patients, who are sectioned and don't have any guarantee on getting off their section, are made to go without sex. Even prisoners have conjugal visits for fucks sake.

I remember a couple of years back a patient asked during a client forum meeting why they couldn't have hookers come on the ward. Which was laughed of course almightily laughed at. But it just got me thinking, Yeah why couldn't we hire maybe four hookers(Bit part paid by the clients and the rested paid by the NHS) to come one the Unit and relief some of those guys sexual tension. And justify it as Therapeutic Activity? Well it is!

Shut the Fuck up you Feminist neutered bitches!

This in turn might make some of those guys a bit more settled and less likely to have a volatile situation. There might be a few hiccups(whiteness dripping down) with this. What if some clients prefer their sex a bit more, lets say, frisky. Then hire a hooker who specialises in that! Have a questionnaire ready, come on nurses get stuck in there(well not literally of course).