My father..

I ask for your best thoughts and wishes as my father had a stroke, and is in hospital, it has taken 24 hours for them to figure out his name is Bill, I guess I did not mention it enough time, and then the light goes on, on maybe thats why he looks at us funny when we call him william!

I am a Canadian, we have a "Free" health care system, I have also traveled, the UK has a 3rd world health system, while I am sure they are doing all they can, being with my father in the hospital while he is just lying there, and listening to the nurses, I just want to weep, thank god he can not hear it.

My mother was in the hospital for thefirst 4 or 5 months of the year, it was horrid then.

I pitty anyone needing healthcare here.

I need to explain things, because in the UK everything is coin feed.

They can not do an operation because they do not have the money, while in all other countries in the world, if you have an operating room, you have nurses and doctors, and the other required tool, you can actually do an operation, but not in the UK.

Here in the UK you need the money to do it. Just because you are paying the doctors, and the nurses, and the electric bill, and you actually own the required tools, that does not mean you can actually put them all togeather and make them work.

You see, in the UK everything is driven by over time. No one works in this country unless it is on over time. The standard wage you pay is just to make sure they show up, not to actually make sure they do any work.

Thus you get strikes like we are about to have. It is just a matter of, it is the way it is.