| Topic: | Re::Re:The cost of Hospital Parking is like rubbing salt into the wounds! | |
| Posted by: | Bernadette Paul | |
| Date/Time: | 29/11/05 14:58:00 |
| I don't think I have ever read such tripe! I don't disagree with the principle of only having children when you can afford them but who knows what the future will bring. No one plans to have children with special needs and I'm not sure you can budget for them in advance. In these days of rampant divorce how many couples could afford children when they had them only to discover they couldn't afford them once one partner or the other decides to divorce? There are many reasons why children can become a financial burden, people lose jobs, partners, etc. Life can throw all sorts of obstacles at people and whilst you may be full of yourself today you may have a rude awakening tomorrow. What a stupid statement it is also to say anyone who can afford a car can afford the parking. Many people run cars for many different reasons and frequently can ill afford the running costs. It is not everyone that can afford a car for a status symbol or for pure luxury. In my humble un-PC opinion, hospital parking charges should be nominal not cash cows for whoever it is that is reaping the benefit. Ealing hospital is crawling with parking attendants who, as I said in an earlier posting, wanted to ticket my newphew whilst he was trying to deliver his mother into A&E whilst she was in the throws of a heart attack. He had already driven round the car park several times looking for a space but in the end had no choice but to drive her to the door. The behaviour of the warden was totally unreasonable in the circumstances. Just to upset even more people with my views, I personally believe that if the National Health were to treat only those that had contributed to it, we would all be a lot better off and car parking would still be free. When the NHS was created in 1948/9 we did not have a country full of people from everywhere on the planet and most people worked. It was also a generation of people who did not rush to the doctor every time they sneezed. The NHS was a wonderful invention that has over time become abused by people who think a trip to the doctor or to A & E is almost a social event and many of those people have never contributed anything at all to the NHS. I consider myself fortunate to be, as far as I know, healthy but I do spend a lot of time at the dentist and whenever I am there all I ever hear is the receptionist asking the patient "do you pay for your treatment" and all I ever hear in an assortment of accents is "No". I almost believe I am the only patient they have that does pay. I was born in Chiswick, I have worked so far for 39 years, raised 3 children single handed without state aid and I have to pay for everything but the country is full of people from somewhere else who do not. |