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Hi,
I read this evening about the fact that the Republican Arizona state government which is in a huge amount of debt has pulled the plug on a whole range of transplants which had been planned for people on Medicaid - typically low income patients for which this will now be a death sentence. Not sure what they are spending the money on - better funding for areas that are firmly Republican possibly? I dunno.

Now life and death decisions are already made in the NHS. Patient A can't have drug C because it is too expensive.

So I can see the idea catching on with our Lib Dem Con government e.g. The Conservative Health Minister Andrew Lansley "Can it be fair that a perfectly healthy, low paid, labourer has to pay taxes to provide a heart transplant for a very wealthy executive?" Of course not, Andrew!

And I can see Lib Dem Deputy Minister, Nick Clegg coming out with a more heart-felt comment "I never joined politics to kill people but we never realised the colossal mess that Gordon Brown and New Labour had left us".
Of course you didnt Nick!

So I thought in this world where we have far too much high brow television with bleeding heart lefties like Jimmy McGovern we should have an antidote.

It would be a cross between X factor and Britains Got Talent where UK transplant patients deprived of their right to live would be involved in a talent contest. The winner would have their transplant paid for them, out of the money generated by telephone votes.

The preliminary title for the programme would be.. the Exit Factor.

What do forumites think of this idea? Do you have any better suggestions for reality TV programmes which take advantage of some of the wonderful opportunities that the current Lib Dem Con government is producing?

CHeers
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How about a hybrid .. 'The Exit Factor' meets 'The Secret Millionaire' ?

Great, innovative thinking.

The Exit Factor with Secret Millionaire. I already see a Xmas Special. Transplant patient who has been taken off the list goes with his extremely photogenic 4 year old daughter to see Father Christmas. But it isnt really Father Christmas, it's Simon Cowell, who disrobes and writes a big fat transplant cheque there and then!!!!

Final shot of Simon, transplant patient and 4year old daughter in a hug.

Good stuff, Jonone. I can see big audiences for this one.

Cheers
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And all of the millionaires could be drawn from Nu Labor. Even better get Neil never did a stroke of real work Kinnock to donate some of his ?10m that he screwed out of the EU (that means us btw)..
Being realistic US healthcare has little in common with the NHS. I have never heard of one single patient in my area saying they were denied a drug on cost alone. Friends sister works in our main hospital pharmacy and says patients would be stunned as to the value of drugs she dishes out each day.

Arginald,

Quite right, given the Tory Front Bench is comprehensively potless (did I see George Osborne, moonlighting by selling the Big Issue yesterday?) , we would obviously have to get candidates either from the Labour party or business.

"I have never heard of one single patient in my area saying they were denied a drug on cost alone."

Please read about the work of Nice. Lansley has abolished Nice and is about to devolve the decision in England to GPs with regard whether patients get drugs or not.

To quote one learned commentator, Lansley begins to remind me of the Katha Upanishad (ch 2, v5) which says that ?abidng in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind?.

Cheers
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How about this one?

The only teams that can qualify are those schools which have had their building projects cancelled by Michael Gove. The winners of the challenge would get a cheque to cover a new roof. Michael Gove would set the questions and Cheryl Cole would be the quiz mistress.

Here's a typical question set by Mikey and delivered by Cheryl "Righto pet, can you decline for me the various tenses of the latin verb, amo?"

At the end of the game, because Mikey is keen on getting the army involved in teaching, members of the SAS would swing through open windows to deliver the prize to the winning team.

Cheryl, in floods of tears would try to console the losing side. "Dont forget to keep wearing your waterproofs whilst you are in school, boo hoo!"

Meanwhile, the winning team would taunt the losers by singing along to that well known favourite, "Raindrops keep falling on my head".

I think this could be a real winner.

Cheers
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