tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post851540280961150818..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Matthew Price depresses the nation again Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-58614733323089713582018-01-15T11:12:39.280+00:002018-01-15T11:12:39.280+00:00I don't think you understand finance as well a...I don't think you understand finance as well as you think, Monkey Brains. It's not about marginal cost, it's about actual cost. Airlines do it as well. If you have a consistent 5% no-show rate, then you can overbook by 5.26 %. You're right that the system would work nicely if nobody ever failed to attend their appointments, but I prefer to confine myself to plausible reality.idle_commenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00804612509560444287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-9675032034042412322018-01-15T03:35:20.060+00:002018-01-15T03:35:20.060+00:00Sounds like a typical politically motivated More o...Sounds like a typical politically motivated More or Less piece. Of course once you've stumped up all the money, then the MARGINAL cost of a missed appointment is close to zero. However, equally if no appointments were consistently missed then clearly there would be huge savings to the NHS. It doesn't take a genius or even a low IQ More of Less team to work that out. <br /><br />This is indicative of the really low quality of most BBC programmes these days. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-6605852091710058482018-01-14T22:23:21.444+00:002018-01-14T22:23:21.444+00:00Now that's one very hard pub game! Are players...Now that's one very hard pub game! Are players allowed to play their 'Get out of jail free' card and say they'd prefer to shoot themselves rather than be interviewed by any of that lot? Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-13793266401884472762018-01-14T22:10:42.304+00:002018-01-14T22:10:42.304+00:00Craig, your comment "the left-wing BBC view t...Craig, your comment "the left-wing BBC view that more tax payers money is the only way forward for our NHS" reminded me of a feature on R4 "More or Less" this week. <br /><br />It had been excitedly trailed for a few days that the program would debunk the NHS claim that missed appointments costs the NHS one billion a year, or 120 pounds per appointment. Sure enough the program interviewed an "expert" who told us that the cost of missed appointments was actually zero because of over-booking and because the NHS staff don't do nothing when a patient fails to turn up. Dubious. But the program was generally exultant about "proving" the real cost is zero. Why so pleased about what is at best just thoughtless? <br /><br />All was revealed in the final concluding sentence ... the presenter stated that this was proof that the NHS crisis cannot be solved by avoiding missed appointments, but ONLY BY GIVING IT MORE MONEY. Boom Boom!Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-29176797036185189362018-01-14T22:09:32.000+00:002018-01-14T22:09:32.000+00:00It's like one of those pub games...who would y...It's like one of those pub games...who would you least like turning up at your hospital bed with a microphone after you were caught up in some murderous attack and lying there with one or two limbs missing: Matthew Price, Orla Guerin or Fergal Keane? Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com