Healthcare and ramblings

I think I'd like to dedicate this blog to the NHS.
I mean, I didn't believe I would wake up this morning and have quite an overwhelming urge to sit here typing a blog that speaks wholly about our National Health Service, but apparently, i have...
I think that although there are still a hell of a lot of issues with cleanliness in our hospitals, the fact that treatment for various illnesses, for example: cancer, is extremely prompt, it's like a single flutter of the wings of a butterfly, waiting for treatment, from diagnosis.
Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating? But seriously, that's the experience I've had with the service.
When my dad took ill with cancer, although the diagnosis was a little slow, as soon as he had been diagnosed, the tests on him followed very shortly afterwards and treatment should be soon too.
He was treated extremely well and his needs were looked after, which obviously, as a daughter, knowing my dad, my idol, is being looked after exceptionally well, frees a hell of a lot off of my mind.
However, I know that there are a lot of disgusting cases of people who have been neglected in hospitals, whilst terminally ill, which makes my blood boil. Any cases of neglect makes my blood boil.
Thinking that people who have paid taxes their whole lives, take ill and are neglected by people who've been trained to care for them, is absolutely terrifying. But there is no excuse for it. None at all. Even for people who do not pay taxes, they deserve the best treatments available too.
Also, although i am careering dramatically off of the subject, in most fairness, there are a lot of cases of people within the much loved British public that say that smoking related diseases and people who smoke (you know, those demonic people that use their freedom of choice to pick up a cigarette, light it and smoke it) do not deserve health care off of the NHS because they've caused their illness them selves.
Firstly, that is extremely inhumane, because we all deserve to be cared for when we are sick and secondly, please do a bit of research and see how much revenue smoking puts into the economy and compare it with how much money is spent on treating smoking related illnesses, because, seriously, a lot more is put into the economy than what is taken out.
I am not saying that smokers are superior to non smokers or that people don't deserve their opinions on this highly controversial topic, but I am saying that people should get off of their high horses and realise that we are all going to get ill and die at one point in our lives and it doesn't mean that we have caused the illness just because we may have had vices in our lives such as smoking and alcohol.