Posted on 10/21/2013 10:10:04 PM PDT by Nachum
Rock legend Roger Daltrey has questioned the effectiveness of the NHS claiming it encourages people to lead unhealthy lives because they know they will get free treatment. The Who frontman, who at 69 is still a picture of good health, said offering state-run free healthcare meant people did not bother looking after themselves. He said: “We have this free NHS, which makes us take our health for granted and means we don’t take responsibility for looking after ourselves. “Most illnesses people suffer from are because of their lifestyles.” His comments came just days after Labour peer Lord Warner’s dire warning
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got fooled again...
Wow, Daltrey can’t be right, can he? Makes too much common sense for these days.
We’re not gonna take it.
>> because they know they will get free treatment.
Technically correct, but not compelling for the ordinary.
He should know about lifestyle related health problems!
Funny, the Lotus-eaters have been known about for 3,000 years.
Probably 90% of the people not on medicare already don’t even know who he is or care.
no, it’s actually using the NHS that makes people unhealthy.
Big fan of Daltrey, both as a musician and as an occasional actor. He probably won’t win any Oscars, but he’s good in the right part. He was an absolutely hoot in a recurring guest role on the tv series Highlander.
Moral hazard alert.
All have made "conservative" statements.
Hell even George Harrison took a poke at "The Taxman".
And from anecdotal reports, John Lennon was leaning conservative when he was shot.
It wouldn't surprise me if Keith Richards leaned right.
Have these guys "seen the light" or is it some passing fancy?
Bring in the new boss, same as the old boss.
Oh, codswallops! Balderdash! Stuff and nonsense!
You must be one of those unreasonable extremists who doesn’t consider death as healthy!
“It wouldn’t surprise me if Keith Richards leaned right.”
Keith can lean left, right, forwards and backwards all at the same time.
Mel
Kudos to Daltrey for speaking up
Watching his bandmates...yes. Daltrey was known for not getting all caught up in the excess drugs and booze...many of his contemporaries at the time thought he was “square”
Now 69 years old? Whatever happened to “Hope I die before I get old”?
(or maybe that was Keith)
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