Cheers Don.

Mind you, neither do I wish to sound complacent. This thread is about lies and politics and whilst healthcare has been a burning issue in The USA, it is always a burning issue here, as the National Health Service gets through so much public money. It is about £1850.00 per man woman and child. In England alone that is over a hundred billion. ...

So plenty of room for politics, ideology and linking to extreme agendas!

We have issues with hard to reach groups in general, which does mean the scale of any problem is higher than it should be. The poorer the area the later people present with their problems. Having universal free at point of delivery healthcare is good but that alone doesn't make our overall health of the population good. We have issues everywhere in the western world will find familiar. Obesity, drink related diseases, smoking and sexually transmitted diseases. The issue facing the work I am doing is, overall, an aging population. Victims of our own success! The links between health and social care could be better. Much better. Our emergency services are crammed full of old people, especially during the winter, whose presence could be avoided if primary and social care in the community was better linked.

We are tackling all of these to a greater or lesser extent. Sexual health is a mixed bag, especially with promiscuous younger heterosexual activity. Contact between the services and vulnerable Gay people has been a success story, although of course this means higher numbers of identified infections leading to extrapolating to higher rates.

This is seized upon by far right groups and sadly many religious groups as an excuse to find a scapegoat for society's issues. Again, same everywhere!

You can tell from his posts, Akenhateon isn't too quick on the uptake and this combined with some irrational hate within him makes him an ideal poster boy for homophobic pressure groups.

We have full equality (except sadly for religious organisations who are allowed to bar women from high office and preach inequality for gays) and earlier this year we righted a wrong and introduced Gay marriage.

Bigotry is being marginalised. The wish is for it to wither and die.