More genius from the Department of Right Wing Health Care

The BBC are reporting on the DoH plan to give chronically ill patients their own budget.

This is a genius plan because:

1. People with COPD are just sitting around at home tied to a 50kg oxygen cylinder, so they are perfectly placed to spend hours on the internet and phoning round different 'providers' for the 'best deal' on their health care. When they are not holding onto the chair arms gasping for breath.

2. The budget will be pennies and the 'providers' will have to increase their prices to cover costs like glossy brochures, telemarketers, 'hello nurses', and all the other bumf that private companies use to con suckers with money.

3. When the patient goes paws up due to crap care, the government can blame the patient because they were the one with control of their own budget.

Oh, so nearly a hit.