From: Hugh Rogers, Messingham Road, Ashby.
THE
NHS was designed by civil servants before World War Two and brought into being
by the post-war Attlee government which, as is common with Labour governments,
didn’t think through the implications of what they were doing. They blithely
saddled the country with a Health Service it couldn’t afford, almost from Day
One.
Now, in defiance of all the evidence, too many influential people would
still like you to believe that the the NHS is fit for purpose and that all that
has to be done is pump more and more money into it. Not their money of course,
but yours as a taxpayer.
But remember, the Brown government tried this and all that happened was
that the NHS absorbed the extra cash like it was a pie-eating competition – with
little to show for it, save perhaps a financial burp or two.
The whole system of health provision in this country needs root
and branch revision. Trying to make our antiquated NHS suitable for a modern
Britain is like me still trying to get into the jeans I used to wear when I was
a teenager, or attempting to link an old-fashioned typewriter to a hand-held
computer. It won’t work. Into the skip with it and start again. Yorks Post.
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