Comments by "" (@grokitall) on "Sick note culture CANCELLED | Rising long-term sickness in the UK 'NOT a working class issue'" video.

  1. The reason the disabled are scepticalis because we have seen it before and it always goes the same way. They start of declaring a war on fraud and benefits scroungers, when the combined fraud and error overpayment is only a couple of percent (currently 3.6% combined). They then do nothing to identify the 1.8% of fraud and error underpayment, or the 3.6% overpayment, and instead just start looking for excuses to slash the benefits budget, resulting in lots of people who need help getting thrown under the bus. Then because these people who genuinely need help end up struggling, they either get forced into illegality, or end up getting mental health problems. Because of the increase in these problems, and in the scandals comming out about stopping benefits for people in genuine need, they have to try and patch up the system, but because they never have joined up thinking just make the problems worse. Finally they end up having to move back towards something similar to what that had before, but vastly inferior, causing more distress and suffering. Then they wait a couple of decades and start it all over again. You already have quaraplegics.being thrown of benefits because they don't need any help, and double amputees being told they don't have any problem walking, even while they are on the waiting list for some legs. And it will get worse before it gets better. You do not fix a system with problems due to error by adding extra causes of error on top of them. You fix them by identifying the causes of the errors, engineering improvements to the system to spot the errors early not punishing people for genuine errors, and only then do you use the information gathered during this process to improve the process to catch fraud earlier. Adding people with lower levels of training to override health care specialists does not stop the people being ill. Also this country does suck at retraining the unemployed.
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