The Curmudgeon

YOU'LL COME FOR THE CURSES. YOU'LL STAY FOR THE MUDGEONRY.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

News 2020

Hippocratic Oath to be re-drafted

The Ministry of Health Insurance Maximisation has promised to revise the Hippocratic Oath so as to minimalise the extent to which preachers of hate can cripple the National Health Service.

The ministry's announcement came within minutes of a story in the Daily Maul about radical Islamist clerics who had spent years in Britain having operations.

"It is completely unacceptable that irrational bigots who glorify violence should be able to make use of British resources," wrote editor Gaynor Speedhump in an editorial.

"Was it for this that we fought two world wars and introduced civilisation to the Middle East?" the editorial continued. "Was it for this that Captain Scott perished in the Antarctic? Is there something un-Islamic about plain, simple gratitude?"

The voluntary wing of the health service, which services the seventeen bands of customer profile paying only the lowest grades of insurance, has been at crisis point for several years, and today's announcement by the Government is being welcomed as a sign that this situation is no longer considered acceptable.

"Consumption of limited health resources by people of questionable moral character is a luxury British democracy can no longer afford," said health minister Bilharzia Fison today.

A cross-coalition committee, including members of both the NuLabLib Coalition and the NuConLib Alliance, will be appointed by the end of the week to draft legislation to "preserve the National Health Service for those who deserve it," Ms Fison said.

The legislation will incorporate a revised and updated Hippocratic Oath, obliging medical industry workers to treat those in need "no matter what their race, religion or politics, within reasonable limits," Ms Fison said.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home