The Health Lottery

[markeris]

A new thing apparently. Theres an exciting new lottery - we were killing ourselves for want of a new one - and it`s all about making the world a better place. We should all of course, as ultimately moral, however debauched and broken, human beings quite rightly buy into the notiion of the world being a better place. Hurrah for them

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[smogo]

Richard Desmond is behind the Health Lottery and is promoting it through the Daily Star and Daily Express's front pages. That in itself makes me think there's some ulterior motive to the Health Lottery.

Actually, I can't be arsed to look up the finer details now, but I believe that it was in fact started by some well-meaning couple, but then Richard Desmond saw some sort of opportunity and bought it off them. Which makes it seem 500% more dodgy than it already did in the first paragraph.

SURELY Richard Desmond isn't moving towards pushing the Tories/EDL/BNP/whichever party his papers are supporting this week into ACTUALLY REPLACING THE NHS WITH HIS HEALTH LOTTERY???

And if he is, isn't "Health Lottery" (as in, "Will you survive this illness or not? Wooooh, it truly is a health lottery!) a bit of a giveaway name for it?

[markeris]

imagine that. Good old dessie.

Celeb Big Brother on C4. Kerry Chipshop is not a contestant because she was rejected by the shows psychiatric assements (1)

Celeb Big Brother on C5. Which I understand to be dessie owned. Kerry Chipshop is a contestant because there are NO psychiatric assesments.

Celeb Big Brother on Channel Eris. Which never happened because no one ever listens when I speak. For the cost of putting these blights on humanity up for a fortnight to month, we get the prime time sensation of revealing to them that the only thing that has and will ever be broadcast is their exit interview, during which they are told that nothing they did whilst in the house was ever broadcast.

(1) which raises questions in and of themselves having seen the show. How fucked do you have to be before some raises actual concerns over someone featuring?

[mog_warbeast]

The Guardian says they give less money per pound to charity than the normal lottery.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[girfan]

This lottery will only give 20p of each pound to medical stuff. The "normal" lottery gives 28p!

A charity local to me started a lottery earlier this year. 60p goes to the charity.

[sarah_mum]

I thought "health lottery" was the stock phrase used when someone has to be ambulanced across county lines/can't get the same treatment their friend who lives down the street got.

I also thought that healthcare was funded by my taxation, with a bit of a boost from prescription charges, and research cash comming in from suitable charities.

I saw someone wearing an "ask me about the Health Lottery" t-shirt this week and thought they were staging some sort of protest. Apparently not.

I join you in the boggling.

[cunabula]

That'd be your 'postcode lottery'. Also boogled.