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governing is choosing

 we were in London last night, enjoying dinner with friends acquaintances, and it turns out friends of friends who are not our friends. We were having dinner in a relatively well-known eatery in Soho when the friend of a friend starting talking about the greatness of the American healthcare system, needless to say this front of a friend is loaded. He thought that the NHS Was a tyranny and that the public sector was no good to provide healthcare

The interesting commentary was that his only experience with healthcare was a boob job and a nose job for his daughter He had always been healthy, and therefore no experience of the healthcare system that didn’t stop them from having an opinion on everything

The questions becomes Do you answer to such ad hominem attacks or do you let it go and leave early? That’s the question in the end we chose the Latter and went home early. My wife asked me why I didn’t Confront this hard I told her that I didn’t feel like getting to an argument with someone who did not matter to me who would probably never change their mind and live on the planet called delusion.

Growing older makes you realize that their battles that are worth fighting and others that are not this was not. This morning as we were driving Back home, my friend called and apologize. I told him don’t worry. The world is full of idiots. The trick is to avoid them if at all possible. He agreed.

I was part of the conservative party for decades, and I one point I realized I was surrender people who could not see with their own two eyes with the world was showing them. Governing is choosing the current labor. Government has made some choices that have consequences in the real world whether it’s healthcare, education or defence government has limited resource from which to finance its obligation and perceived needs. 

The reality of the NHS is that its needs in 2030 I’m not the needs it had in 1960s. That’s choice that’s what governments are paid to do. The reality of the UK healthcare system are evident for all to see however so far the outcome in the UK have been pretty good even in 2023. The outcomes were better than 2020 in fighting disease and providing healthcare but also and providing quality of life, which is something that is often forgotten. 

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