Speak against the NHS and Labour will accuse you of eating babies in your spare time.
But let us step back and consider a short while.
The NHS is the 3rd largest employer in the world. It almost certainly has the largest bureaucracy in any health system in the world.
Margaret Thatcher was criticised for quadrupling NHS spending during her tenure from £9 billion annually to £36 billion - something I was never quite able to grasp.
Labour has poured in extra funds with a remarkable freedom and has overseen the closure of a mere 32,000 beds!
Political correctness and a visceral hatred of private healthcare have made some appalling changes within systems - for example, withdrawing care from people who have had the temerity to buy their own drugs for cancer care WHEN THE NHS HAS REFUSED TO SUPPLY THEM!
Perhaps things wouldn't be quite so bad if our healthcare were not so poor by western standards. I recently read that people in the USA with no health insurance whatsoever have significantly better survival rates from common cancers than NHS patients!
The best system is the French version where workers pay a small percentage of the costs [very cheaply insured] of their treatment and have access to the best hospitals, surgeons and care because the money follows the patient and the sytem is not wastefully 'top-funded'.
Our problem is that Labour refuses to address the problem and the leftwing mantra "The tories are privatising the NHS" would prevent a new government being able to tackle this out of control behemoth.
The money that goes in should return us a tremendous system. The trouble is - a majority of the population do not really want to tackle the problem.
I mentioned the French system to a most conservative friend who was horrified at the French idea and could not get his head around the fact that insurance costs would be even less than in France and that their sytem makes us look PRIMITIVE. I am afraid that he is not untypical. This is what happens when the left control most of education, higher education and the media.
Common sense is not part of the argument - only dogma.
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023506/Labours-playing-medical-poker--stakes-patients-lives.html
