This has been thrown about here before, and almost without fail, always gets opposition. You only have to look at pretty much every comment on that article from 6 years ago.
Now I’m not saying that proposal was a saviour or anything, but we have a habit here of just always giving up on ideas because the opposition argues against any sort of proposal.
Lou macari has set up something brilliant like this in Manchester
I’m reminded of a line I saw a couple months ago about the housing crisis along the lines that it’s either a proper crisis in which case any action which might ease it should be seriously considered even if less than perfect or it’s not a crisis in which case the pursuit of perfection and political purity can be pursued. It can’t be both.
Considering the objections made by political party representatives to proposed developments for hugely spurious reasons, I find the bleating from the political parties quite contradictory then. As you say, it’s either a crisis or its not. Objecting and causing delays and costs onto projects does nothing to help.
Politicians
Nimbys
It’s like climate change, everybody wants to make things better unless it affects them
I like to object to every housing development in limerick because it preserves the value of my house
And people will move in and they will commit crimes and will fill up the roads and the schools
If I won the lotto I’d help the homeless first. Lou has done some incredible work.
Lou Macari seems to know his onions. He definitely knows them when it it comes to the appalling farce that is healthcare in the US.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotland-legend-lou-macari-blasts-6325799
SCOTLAND legend Lou Macari has warned against privatising the NHS after a shocking £16,475 visit to hospital in America.
The football pundit had a terrifying insight into the crippling cost of US health care after falling ill while commentating on a Manchester United pre-season tour.
The gobsmacking bill for just nine hours of treatment at the O’Connor hospital in San Francisco included £3,416 for a room - despite the fact Macari didn’t even stay overnight - and £10,079 for two scans which failed to diagnose bleeding behind his eye.
And the former Scotland and Manchester United has told how the experience opened his eyes to the importance of the NHS.
He said: “I was in hospital for stomach cramps and sickness one day for four hours, and then for five hours the next day after I lost vision in one of my eyes.
“The treatment I received was fine, but the cost of the health care over there is just unbelievable.
“It was the first time I have really appreciated just how important the system we have in the UK is, and why we must make sure that it stays the way it is.
“I can’t imagine the effect receiving a bill like that could have on someone vulnerable or elderly or who just can’t pay for whatever reason.
“At the end of the day I am covered by insurance, and I would have got it sorted out one way or the other, but not everyone is in that position.”
Macari was first struck down with stomach cramps and sickness on July 25 and had to visit the O’Connor hospital in San Jose - missing the Manchester United v Barcelona match in the Levis’ Stadium.
He was released after tests that showed no significant illness, but then returned the next day after losing vision in one eye.
This time around he was given a head and back scan which again didn’t show any serious ailment.
It was only after he visited a separate eye specialist recommended by a Manchester United doctor that bleeding behind the eye - brought on by the strain of being sick the day before - was diagnosed.
Macari added: “The treatment at the O’Connor hospital was fine, even though it wasn’t until I went to see a separate specialist that the problem was diagnosed.
“It doesn’t look like anything serious and my eye has been getting better every day.
“But it is quite shocking when you see just how much people are being charged over there for health care.
“I didn’t even stay overnight and I was charged thousands of dollars for a room, it is incredible.
“It is important that the people in charge in this country understand just how bad the American system is compared to ours.
“We are always running down the NHS but what a wonderful thing it is.”
Macari took to Twitter after receiving his American hospital bill.
He Tweeted: “Neck scan $5918.00, Head scan $9789, Room $5324.00. Total without medication $21,031. This must never happen in the UK.”
Earlier, he had posted a picture of the total bill he received for $25,671, along with the message: “Two days and no overnight stay in US hospital. 1st day 4hrs, 2nd day 5hrs. Our #NHS - best service in the world!”
Americans pay a fortune for private health care insurance, and those without cover are often left without care or hit with an enormous bill.
There are many agencies here that have the same policy here. They reckon their success rates about 85%. Unfortunately when it fails it can go spectacularly wrong. Like poor Tony Dempsey last week. The Irish Times has a podcast with conor pope supposedly about that murder but actually blaming the Peter McVerry trust because the provided the apartment under that policy.
This housing charity gig is serious business now. Another example of the Government outsourcing responsibility.
Mega Landlord Fr Peter McVerry gets massive payments from the state annually, all while claiming charitable status
All while regularly giving out yards about the state …
€53m in 2021
Who even know what he’s doing with that money sure, and it all coming out of our taxes.
Just the 470 employees.
It’s a smart tactic.