Fun Online Poll: Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms & heat wave

I suppose I might as well shut down yesterday's poll, because people will probably have forgotten about the mini-heat wave at the weekend now that it's started drizzling again. The results were:

Did you spend less time blogging when the weather was so hot?
Yes - 12 votes
No - 9 votes
Other, please specify - 1 vote (trying to repair car and/or buy new one).

Thanks to everybody who took part. I was firmly in the 'yes' camp on this one, in case you're wondering, and just being nosy about everybody else.
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Andrew Lansley's plan to give GPs control over NHS spending seems like a small step in the right direction to me, i.e. towards a taxpayer-subsidised health system with competing, non-state owned providers, like in most European countries. The high street doctor is just a referee between patient, provider and insurer, but seeing as most people have a pretty good idea what is wrong with them, they go straight to a specialist high street doctor anyway and there are few 'general practitioners'.

But I haven't given it that much thought. These chaps have, so if you haven't already made up your mind, read up for entirely opposite points of view:
Adam Collyer is enthusiastically in favour (beware: he is true blue Tory, so might be a bit biased - but what he says makes sense).
Obnoxio The Clown thinks that the only people less trustworthy than bureaucrats are GPs.

Or if you want the depressed-to-the-point-of-suicidal view, why not try Auntie Melanie?

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