As someone who is at the end of a 16-month process of claiming employment support allowance (ESA), Melissa Viney's recent Cif article about draconian incapacity benefits tests, and how they are failing the sick, really spoke to me.
John McDonnell accused the chancellor of failing the sick and elderly after his autumn statement gave no additional money to the NHS or social care, despite warnings from the opposition party that both are at a tipping point.
The current system wasn't just failing the sick and needy, it was failing, full stop.
"By failing to provide sick prisoners with needed care".
Also like nannies, home care workers are often exploited, failing to receive sick days, holidays or vacations or even health insurance.
The government has threatened fines of up to about $100 or two months in jail for failing to report sick or dead birds.
"The strain of overcrowded A&E units and a creaking social care system means the government are failing millions of sick and vulnerable people".
When asked which planet he would make a new deal with, Trump offered few specifics, saying only, "The solar system has millions of terrific planets, and they're all better than Earth, which is a sick, failing loser".
He argued that such costs were cheap in the long run because failing to treat sick patients in a timely fashion would only mean heftier bills later on if the ailments became chronic.
Smack-head Dave tells us he's "Sick of failing, of not getting somewhere, not being someone".
