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Having been a proud Labour supporter for many, many years until i realised the error of my ways, I have come to the conclusion the NHS was probably in bigger danger under Labour than it is under Tories.. Don't get me wrong, i'm not a big Tory supporter either, and i certainly won't be joining the fan club anytime soon, but I now feel slightly more secure under Tory hands than Labour for some weird reason.. Might be a different story if David Milliband was Labour leader, but seeing as it's gormless brother Ed... Sweet he may look, but i'm not sure i'd trust a country - Let alone the NHS - in his hands, and he'd simply be yet another disastrous Labour PM.
I actually think privatisation is the only hope for the NHS. There are some great people working in the NHS but I think the politicians in charge of running things would struggle to organise a piss up in a brewery.
People automatically assume that privatisation means "greedy profiteering" and "lowering of standards" but when you look at competitive privately owned industries like mobile phone or TV manufacturers, quality goes up every year and costs comes down. Why can't healthcare be the same as this?
Labour Privatised large chunks of the NHS, not the Tories, get your facts right.
Labour Lies and always have done, Tony B. Liar privatised parts of the NHS which Margaret Thatcher had vetoed being put into Private hands.
The current Government is upsetting Labour because they are putting the management into the hands of the health care Professionals (which Labour are perversely calling Privatisation?) which means the Doctors and Nurses in the Profession decide how you should be cared for not the Politicians.
That is the main reason Labour are upset, that a local Doctor to you will decide how you should be treated not meddling Labour MPs and councillors.
You sound to be swallowing the Labour lies, well that is up to you, but they nearly destroyed the Country on the three occasions they have been in Government.
I'll bet you didn't know that under Mrs. Thatcher spending on the NHS went up 30% in real terms, and that from being nearly bankrupt in 1979, the NHS was flourishing at the end of her terms in office.
I think that there may indeed be a reason to worry about the continuation of the NHS judging by what I have heard from people who work in it. However, there is very little that we can DO about it if the government decides to change it, or even abolish it altogether is there, except go on a protest march, or something similar. I hope it doesn't get privatised, as otherwise I wont be able to afford my medication, which basically keeps me alive, and from having strokes, and heart attacks, as these are prevalent in my Fathers family. I don't worry about it, because what will be will be, and worrying about things wont help them at all, and may make our current health worse (mine and yours). I hope that they can do things to improve our health service, but I am not sure if it is now too late to return it to a good state anymore. I hope that I am wrong, but I've got a feeling that I am not, and that things will just continue to get worse. Hopefully, people like you and me who rely on benefits or a pension/disability handout, will still qualify for some kind of help, but goodness knows what will happen to those who work, and have to contribute to the government coffers. Don't worry about it L, because if its going to happen then so be it, because worrying about it wont change a thing will it?
You pray it isn't privatised ? Why not instead pray that andy burnham the man who described the NHS as the envy of the world at the same time he was covering up the death of 100's of people doesn't get his hands back on it.
It is a case of WE CANNOT AND MUST NOT LET THE NHS BE DESTROYED.
Do we want the old day's back when people could not afford a doctor or treatment for a illness.?
Or do we want to have private medical insurance and if you cannot afford it you have to rely on medicare or charities to pay for your treatment?
We only have our lives to lose or a lifetime of Living with a illness if we let the NHS be destroyed.
There is always cause for concern when the Tory party is involved in anything to do with the NHS, they are destroying it and selling it off to private enterprise.
There's doom and gloom NHS stories going round for donkeys years and yet it hasn't ceased to grow year after year.
Calm down dear!
Everyone in Britain who goes out to work, about 30 million of us, pays in about ￡3,000 a year each to pay for it.
I'm going to say this just once, if I were you, I would try to learn basic English before I started worrying about broader issues.
i hear lot of worrying stories about it today, iam an nhs user and value it greatly, im english and im genuinely worried about the nhs and NHS hospitals in this time..
can the nhs survive ? will the tories get their own way of privatizing it ? - i pray not.
