On Womans Hour this week a woman told of how she had been told, in terms, by an NHS doctor, that she would be a burden on the NHS because she was classified as clinically obese
Smokers like me are a burden too
And people who injure themselves or others through the sheer stupidity of their driving
And all those sportsmen who injure themselves in pursuit of their allegedly healthy activities
And mothers of IVF twins
And people who live on lettuce & lemon juice
And people who demand fabulously expensive drugs to eke out their miserable existence for another few months
In fact the opposite is true
The NHS, by gobbling up going on 10% of our gross income, is a burden on us
And brings out the nosy, carping, interfering, censorious, misanthropic busybody in us all
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