Thanks MyPhysio+ for your insights. I just can understand why, when we have so many international examples of why this does not work, why the profession as a whole suffers and why the bankers as a result get richer, that Physiotherapists (not just their associations) just DON'T GET IT!

Why will the UK have to follow the way of the USA and Australia to the detriment of the profession until they wake and and say...'Oh perhaps we should have stood out group against this at the beginning...

It is just as much an issue of the individual as the whole. So often I have thought to become more involved in either the CSP or Physio First but again and again my gut tells me that mine would be a lone single voice. It frustrates the crap out of me. We need to think way outside the box on this and come at healthcare from a totally different perspective where insurers and pharma's are not calling the shots.

I read a really interesting piece of information about the USA yesterday. Did you know that in 2007, a study by Harvard researchers found that medical problems caused an astonishing 62% of all personal bankruptcies files in the USA. Even more surprising was that 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness. When we will learn that this is 'killing' not just us as professinals but the public who we support.