Topic: | Re:The cost of Hospital Parking is like rubbing salt into the wounds! | |
Posted by: | David Johnson | |
Date/Time: | 03/04/06 13:44:00 |
Hello Ina, I think we are all finding that it is difficult to see the wood for the trees in this anomaly. I would like to ask you a question, it is a genuine point that I don’t understand, but I expect that I will get flamed :-) You (and many erudite posters to tw8) have been upset by the parking charges. Very briefly there has been a reference to telephones, televisions etc., but essentially it has been confined to the parking. I don’t understand why you object to paying for the parking, but you don’t object to the cost of the treatment, the administrators, the cleaners, the gardening, the heating, the stationery, the other areas of facilities management etc., etc., etc. I would guess that the majority of items are taken from you in income tax, council tax, vat, and other invisible stealth taxes. BUT THE PARKING!!! Nobody goes to a hospital for fun. Either we are ill or a relative/loved one is ill. To ask us to find change at such a time is moronic at best. Parking under these circumstances should be free at the point of delivery. Problem solved apart from two tiny niggles………... 1. If the hospital car parks were free everybody would use them and it would be difficult to find a way to prevent that. Of course it would be difficult; if it were easy we wouldn’t need so may highly paid administrators in hospitals earning six figure salaries. 2. Hospital car parks do have a capital cost and need money each year to kill the weeds, replace the tarmac, repaint the yellow lines etc. So just add the necessary amount to income tax, council tax – wherever! It doesn’t matter, does it? It’s never going to happen. Unfortunately 68% of voters will vote for the party that appears to offer the lower level of taxation. “Hi Dave, sorry i had misunderstood……” Me too :-) I thought Justin was missing the point that the West Mid. is often to be found under the “Hammersmith group” but I think the problem was that the BBC et. al. only jumped on the hospitals where the parking generated more than £ one million; in fact the Macmillan telephone audit was carried out on all 292 hospitals across the UK with cancer centres and cancer units. |