> *“If I told you that in the US, with its notoriously expensive healthcare system, the number resorting to crowdfunding campaigns to pay exorbitant private medical expenses has risen 20-fold in the past five years, I’m sure you wouldn’t be surprised. But those statistics don’t refer to the US, they refer to the UK.”*
When is enough enough?
This is an easy attack line for Labour if it can be backed up and quantified. Though Boris will probably take credit for allowing people to crowdfund for money to pay for ops that the NHS should do.
Rowena Mason Political correspondent
Sun 5 Jun 2016 12.46 BST
The NHS would be as safe as a pet hamster in the presence of a hungry python if Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith rose to power following Brexit, Sir John Major has said.
In an extraordinary attack on his fellow Conservatives, Major produced a withering assessment of leading members of Vote Leave, calling their campaign deceitful, untrue, depressing, awful and “verging on the squalid”.
The former prime minister insisted his intervention was not a personal slight against Johnson or Gove, but a more general criticism of the leave campaign’s shift to the right on immigration and claims that they would protect the NHS.
How do I … vote in the EU referendum?
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However, he went on to claim Gove had wanted to privatise the NHS, Johnson wished to charge people for health services and Duncan Smith advocated moving to a social insurance system.
“The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python,” Major said on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show.
I wonder if the people calling for a U S type health care system, realise how shit it actually is. And it’s vastly overpriced for shit. So the future of this “great” country is fucked for my kids.
Fuck the tories. Fuck the cunts who voted them in (I include close family members in that)
There is no substance in this article. Not enough information to draw any conclusions.
I have been reading that the Conservatives are about to privatise the NHS since the late 1980s. They seem to be taking their time about it. Maybe this time, they will actually do it. E.g. GPs be self employed fulfilling contracts, or hospital consultants doing private work, like they both have since 1948…
These fucking pretend newspapers are getting a little tiresome. If you are a political activist then just be one. Pretending to be a journalist and inventing a newspaper to publish your blog posts is pathetic.
Another anti-conservative fluff piece, Labour supporters are the biggest moaners I’ve ever met. Shame that they are still in the minority of voters.
you can thank Tony Blair for that, it was his idea to sell off a huge chunk and put the rest into massive debt, forcing them to sell off more and more, whilst simultaneously throwing the nations borders open to the EU, causing the system to be swamped with almost twice as many patients as it was designed to handle at this stage in it’s lifespan
Backdoor? I had an appointment this week that just advert for private services accessible through the NHS. There’s nothing backdoor about any of this.
What are we going to do about it though
They’ve been playing the refund game for years. The NHS is in bits, severely defined and overwhelmed, but that’s on the Tories.
The same are happening here, in Brazil. We have one of biggest services of public health (SUS), but, unfortunately, the healthtechs have much more money for consults and clinics exams. The poor people have no alternatives but to spend money whith this companies
The academics called this phenomenon by “mercantilization of health” When government says “we don’t have money for health”, in true, they are saying”we support the owners of healthtechs”
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> *“If I told you that in the US, with its notoriously expensive healthcare system, the number resorting to crowdfunding campaigns to pay exorbitant private medical expenses has risen 20-fold in the past five years, I’m sure you wouldn’t be surprised. But those statistics don’t refer to the US, they refer to the UK.”*
When is enough enough?
This is an easy attack line for Labour if it can be backed up and quantified. Though Boris will probably take credit for allowing people to crowdfund for money to pay for ops that the NHS should do.
Rowena Mason Political correspondent
Sun 5 Jun 2016 12.46 BST
The NHS would be as safe as a pet hamster in the presence of a hungry python if Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith rose to power following Brexit, Sir John Major has said.
In an extraordinary attack on his fellow Conservatives, Major produced a withering assessment of leading members of Vote Leave, calling their campaign deceitful, untrue, depressing, awful and “verging on the squalid”.
The former prime minister insisted his intervention was not a personal slight against Johnson or Gove, but a more general criticism of the leave campaign’s shift to the right on immigration and claims that they would protect the NHS.
How do I … vote in the EU referendum?
Read more
However, he went on to claim Gove had wanted to privatise the NHS, Johnson wished to charge people for health services and Duncan Smith advocated moving to a social insurance system.
“The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python,” Major said on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show.
I wonder if the people calling for a U S type health care system, realise how shit it actually is. And it’s vastly overpriced for shit. So the future of this “great” country is fucked for my kids.
Fuck the tories. Fuck the cunts who voted them in (I include close family members in that)
There is no substance in this article. Not enough information to draw any conclusions.
I have been reading that the Conservatives are about to privatise the NHS since the late 1980s. They seem to be taking their time about it. Maybe this time, they will actually do it. E.g. GPs be self employed fulfilling contracts, or hospital consultants doing private work, like they both have since 1948…
These fucking pretend newspapers are getting a little tiresome. If you are a political activist then just be one. Pretending to be a journalist and inventing a newspaper to publish your blog posts is pathetic.
Another anti-conservative fluff piece, Labour supporters are the biggest moaners I’ve ever met. Shame that they are still in the minority of voters.
you can thank Tony Blair for that, it was his idea to sell off a huge chunk and put the rest into massive debt, forcing them to sell off more and more, whilst simultaneously throwing the nations borders open to the EU, causing the system to be swamped with almost twice as many patients as it was designed to handle at this stage in it’s lifespan
Backdoor? I had an appointment this week that just advert for private services accessible through the NHS. There’s nothing backdoor about any of this.
What are we going to do about it though
They’ve been playing the refund game for years. The NHS is in bits, severely defined and overwhelmed, but that’s on the Tories.
The same are happening here, in Brazil. We have one of biggest services of public health (SUS), but, unfortunately, the healthtechs have much more money for consults and clinics exams. The poor people have no alternatives but to spend money whith this companies
The academics called this phenomenon by “mercantilization of health” When government says “we don’t have money for health”, in true, they are saying”we support the owners of healthtechs”