Archive for February, 2010

  • MS Society v Risk Sharing Scheme: Five Questions

    MS Society v Risk Sharing Scheme: Five Questions

    Having, between frenetic work, cogitated on my conversation with Laura Wier from the MS Society’s Policy department, I think I can now boil my issues down to 5 key questions: 1) What did the MS Society have in mind when it suggested trading a legislative/contractual...

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  • MS Society: They DO want to end the Risk Sharing Scheme

    MS Society: They DO want to end the Risk Sharing Scheme

    So at 4:20 (appropriately enough, fact fans), I got off my bum and rang the MS Society to find out answers to the email I’d sent below that had been ignored. I was quickly transfered to the Information Team at that time. They thought it...

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  • Email to the MS Society Press Office

    Email to the MS Society Press Office

    As promised yesterday, I am attempting to get to the bottom of what, prima facie, is a terrible mistake by the MS Society: I am trying to find out if you really ARE calling for the abolition of the risk sharing scheme. My concerns are...

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  • MS Society: Sine Qua Non

    MS Society: Sine Qua Non

    I read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8523820.stm Once my apoplexy subsided, I just became incredibly depressed. Then angry. Let me tell you why: The only reason that Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) prescribe Disease Modifying Drugs is because they were FORCED TO by NICE. You can still find places...

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  • Blasphemy

    Blasphemy

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  • I’ve never voted Labour before…

    I’ve never voted Labour before…

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  • Fun and Games With Idiots – part #2647

    Fun and Games With Idiots – part #2647

    Sometimes the British Electorate get things very, very right indeed…

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  • Another disgusting incidence of the ‘Righteous’ favouring their own

    Another disgusting incidence of the ‘Righteous’ favouring their own

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8497365.stm Yup, Blair’s wife has let a man off a prison sentence for breaking another man’s jaw on the grounds that he was a ‘religious’ man and had just come from the Mosque before entering the bank where he assaulted another customer. So would she...

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  • Why do we tax public sector workers?

    Why do we tax public sector workers?

    This occured to me the other day: As the public sector HAS no money but what it takes from the private sector, is it not the case that applying tax to  public sector workers  necessarilly creates more public sector jobs to oversee the collection, expanding the...

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