Originally Posted by garinda (Post 740709)

He?

Sounds like you've just flunked biology.

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 740706)

That isn't what bullseyebarb is saying :confused: Sounds to me like he is saying that it should be communities that setup schools independently of the state with taxpayers money. Sorry if this isn't what you meant bullseyebarb but to me it sounded like that.

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 740713)

I made a typo - great that you've had to sink to that instead of debating the point though.

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 740713)

I made a typo - great that you've had to sink to that instead of debating the point though.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 740714)

So we have Bullseyebarb believing everything in the press about the N.H.S.'s care being dependent on your postcode, yet she's suggesting a similar situation for education. With the quality of education being down to total luck, as to whether the community schools you happen to live near are good or not, rather than a universal education policy set by central government.

I know which system I think is preferable.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 740712)

It would appear that you have not yet been informed that I am the resident Professor of Mental Health and Director of the Accy Web cerebal improvement programme.

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 740721)

We have a postcode lottery for education here even if it we do have a 'universal education policy'.

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 740706)

That isn't what bullseyebarb is saying :confused: Sounds to me like he is saying that it should be communities that setup schools independently of the state with taxpayers money. Sorry if this isn't what you meant bullseyebarb but to me it sounded like that.

Originally Posted by bullseyebarb (Post 740745)

Originally Posted by bullseyebarb (Post 740745)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 740697)

I have friends in the U.S. who can't access the same drugs as I get prescribed here, for Parkinson's disease, because their health insurance won't supply them. They are the lucky ones, the ones with some form of health insurance.

As a consequence many of them suffer unnecessarily, and have a poorer quality of life than myself. Other patients with long term degenerative illnesses have similar experiences.

Health insurance companies are businesses, whose primary motivation is making money.

As flawed as it might be, happily here in Britain, patient's needs still take precedence over shareholder's profits.

You shouldn't always believe everything you read in the press.;)

Originally Posted by bullseyebarb (Post 740761)

You can't insure health. Insurance is meant to provide a cushion against the unexpected and catastrophic. As I have previously stated, the whole nature of insurance changes and is no longer viable when government steps in and begins mandating things. There are much better ways of handling whatever problems we have.

I don't have to believe everything I read in the press. I've visited some of your hospitals and clinics. That's why I always carry medical evacuation insurance when I travel abroad.

Originally Posted by claytonender (Post 740751)

Whilst I understand what you are saying I do not have to agree with it.

I take it that the area that you live in is relatively affluent and the schools can be fully funded from your property taxes. But what happens in areas where there is insufficient income form the property taxes to fund education to the same level as in your town? Do the children in those areas receive a lower standard of education? If they do , are you advocating this as being an acceptable state of affair?

Out of interest which school in Clayton did you attend?

Originally Posted by bullseyebarb (Post 740772)

Money alone is not a reliable indicator of the kind of education children receive. It is not uncommon to find places with the least expenditure per student having far better results than others who spend vastly more. The worst schools and scholastic records are often in inner cities where huge sums are spent with little to show for it.

St. James'. Later, St. John's in Accrington.