It depresses me that there is a risk (however small) that this madness could spread to the UK. For all its faults (and it does have them), the NHS outstrips pretty much any other healthcare model. Only the rich and wannabe rich can think a 100% pay model make sense.
]]>Yes, good point. The vested interests behind these lies must assume the US public’s capacity for gullibility is boundless.
Bzzt.
Dead right.
The levels of lying about this issue were pretty staggering. Depressing that a British MEP was happy to tell lies about the NHS on Fox.
(Although that’s also possibly good, given that one thing that could prevent a Conservative election victory would be them showing themselves to be a danger to the NHS.)
It’s quite cheering that Stephen Hawking said, in Washington, that he actually owed his life to the NHS, according to the Guardian.
]]>a national health service is there to look after people not kill them. the idea that having one takes away patient choice is barking mad. NHS patients can still chose to have private treatment (in the US model) if they want, but they have the fall back for the poor.
maybe the US just wants to kill off its poor people in some bizarre, covert, eugenics program. the irony of this being supported by rightwing creotards is priceless.
]]>The stories of people dying on a waiting list
This is true, but is not a fault of the NHS as people die waiting for organs in every country in the world. Even in the US people die on waiting lists… Shock, horror.
That this blatant lying has any traction at all in a developed world country with massive internet penetration is shocking.
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