[Stoat]

Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said: “Why should these people with self-inflicted problems be given priority over people who have a genuine illness? Some people with genuine disease are being forced to sell their homes for the medicines they need.”

How terribly, dreadfully sad.

[Stoat]

Ipod ping

[Law is not justice but process]

Next year’s headline: “Massive Second-Hand iPod Market Funds Drug Trade: Plaintiffs’ Firms Promise to Hold Apple Accountable”

[WesternPacific]

Material rewards to change behaviors are fine with adolescence, such as M&Ms, but as for adults, rewards tend to be more successful if they are internalized.
if the iPods do not change the behaviors, will they be taken away? More than likely, the iPods will end up in the possession of other individuals or Pawn shops.

[tcostell]

How do I sign up for this program? Having never been much of a drug user, I’m confident that I can test negative as many times as they are willing to test me.

[ishabibble]

I’m going to send this to Fat Mikey Moore!

Socialized medicine doesn’t work because monumental idiots run it. Third-rate losers who can’t cut it in a competitive workplace always end up in backwater jobs like these people at NHS. These clowns couldn’t find their own worthless backsides with both hands.

What’s next? Alcoholics who are hooked on heroin and meth win the trifecta and get an Iphone? Jacka@@es.

[Stoat]

An insightful comment from a poster at the Times site:

If your 'drug problem' has so small a grip on you that it can be cured by the offer of a free iPod, you haven't got a drug problem. If however, you really do have a drug problem, I guess you could always sell the iPod on eBay and buy more drugs...

Catriona Hallett, London,

 

[dfwgator]

I remember a chapter from Rush Limbaugh’s “The Way Things Ought To Be” entitled, “Now We Thank People for Obeying the Law.”

Now we “Reward Them For Obeying the Law.”

[bboop]

I would be fried! And then there are the variables: What if they dry up, win an iPod, and then go back on? Do they get another one if they sober up again? Do they have to give the first one back if they revert? Can they be sober for a year, then revert, but not have to give it back because it’s been a year? What if they sell it? And then they revert because they no longer FEEL GOOD because they won an iPod?

OH THERE ARE SUCH IDIOTS IN THE WORLD, many of them in charge.

[martin_fierro]

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[Publius6961]

My option is shoot them.
Direct, effective, guaranteed success, and a lot cheaper.

And it would free up limited public funds for people with diseases over which they have zero control...

Just saying.