Here comes the nudge

I muttered yesterday about how the Welsh assembly had decided we no longer owned our own bodies (at least not once dead) and that they could just help themselves to our organs, unless they somehow knew we’d said that they couldn’t. Well here comes the “nudge” for the rest of. If you’re not a registered donor, on a database not just carrying a card then to the back of the queue for you if you need a transplant yourself. The telegraph is reporting that the NHS would like to push non-donors to the back of the transplant queue to encourage more people to donate organs. They also want more organs from smokers and drinkers which is odd given what terrible state of health even looking at a drink or a cigarette will leave you in. I do wonder how they’ll prioritize a donating drinking smoker, seeing as they have in the past also mooted the idea of putting smokers and drinkers to the back of the queue. Of course if you drink smoke and don’t donate I guess under the proposed rules you’re screwed if you need a transplant.

Some groups such as patients are objecting to this idea, but I expect we’ll have a consultation along in the minute which “proves” that the majority of stake holders (those in favour of the idea) think it’s a jolly good plan. Not quite sure how it fits with universal health care and I’d prefer that private medicine just took cash rather than a promise of my organs – far too much like gene co and Repo! that. Still another step along the path to state control of everything.

As a final thought if the NHS is the new state religion, would this make it a blood cult?