The NHS is unsustainable. We see that now with selective practices. For example, smokers are sometimes refused treatment until they give up, even if it's to try and fix a bone fracture. Myself: I was refused treatment for other reasons. Another relative: sent home to die in agony with a blood clot after being told repeatedly 'it was all in her mind'.
The NHS is unsustainable because when the 'Welfare State' was founded, it was conceded that it could only be afforded as long as there was full employment and industrial output. What a joke that is today.
The last government bought popularity by using 'PFI' (Private Finance Initiative) to build and maintain hospitals and schools for 25 years, but it has meant that the private companies responsible for the new infrastructure are making a huge profit at the taxpayers' expense, which can only mean more cutbacks and a worse service for some.
At the moment, sick and dying people are being kicked off of welfare benefits along with the scroungers as part of the Tory 'cuts'. They use (again) private medical companies which appear to have 'doctors' not worthy of the name, even by NHS 'standards', telling the government agencies that really sick people who depend on their benefits to survive are fit and well enough to work.
This is the real state of the NHS and a near-bankrupt Britain.
Socialised healthcare - and it's why the US now has it - is so that the government can control the people.
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MaWeiTao is spot on.
The NHS is unsustainable. We see that now with selective practices. For example, smokers are sometimes refused treatment until they give up, even if it's to try and fix a bone fracture. Myself: I was refused treatment for other reasons. Another relative: sent home to die in agony with a blood clot after being told repeatedly 'it was all in her mind'.
The NHS is unsustainable because when the 'Welfare State' was founded, it was conceded that it could only be afforded as long as there was full employment and industrial output. What a joke that is today.
The last government bought popularity by using 'PFI' (Private Finance Initiative) to build and maintain hospitals and schools for 25 years, but it has meant that the private companies responsible for the new infrastructure are making a huge profit at the taxpayers' expense, which can only mean more cutbacks and a worse service for some.
At the moment, sick and dying people are being kicked off of welfare benefits along with the scroungers as part of the Tory 'cuts'. They use (again) private medical companies which appear to have 'doctors' not worthy of the name, even by NHS 'standards', telling the government agencies that really sick people who depend on their benefits to survive are fit and well enough to work.
This is the real state of the NHS and a near-bankrupt Britain.
Socialised healthcare - and it's why the US now has it - is so that the government can control the people.