Fix the hole!
The government is announcing a new initiative to crack down on benefit fraud.Cracking down on benefit fraud is admirable – scroungers are a burden on society and hurt the honest poor the most. However, the government’s plans – announced today – do nothing but shift the blame from the incompetent and bloated bureaucracy of the state to our already overworked and over-regulated medical professionals.
Benefit fraud is merely one symptom of our broken and corrupt statist social model. The cause is government bureaucracy masquerading as social concern.
If the government really cared about reforming the NHS so that it could deliver quality service, free at the point of delivery, for everyone, they would drop the charade that all is well with their precious centralised Stalinist model and allow funds to be channelled to patient care rather than for administration and ‘targets’.
The government knows there is a hole in the NHS bucket. They wouldn’t have had to top it up so often if it was not leaking as it is. In fact, the government should be well aware of the size of the problem, since no serious politician will dispute that more funds are now channelled into the NHS than ever before. Yet the only thing the NHS do better than before is hit targets.
Dr Crippen has an example of how today’s announcement will play out for GPs.
