All the hard left, like pseudo Tories on here, always quote the US health care as what the evil Tories will turn the NHS into along with such gripping disasters like US children's story Chicken Lickin, which I read as a 5yo, and I still don't know if the sky fell in!
Margaret Thatcher had plenty of time to turn it into an insurance based pay for US system & she didn't she tried to create an internal value-for-money market which the Labour vandals (paid for by the vested interests unions) scrapped. No, quite rightly so IMV, European government will never get rid of their free to access system (or limited, affordable cost system) as it is actually the smart society thing to do, even though the Stalinist NHS system is appalling compared to most of European part state-part private systems. France does this 50-50 system particularly well where they both keep each other honest on cost, effeciency and outcomes, (as OOF French resident Albs will attest to this.
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Why is it smart?
Because the US system fails, where a considerable minority of workforce age people no longer can afford the heath care to recover & work, where they can't afford their treatment. The doctor's 'cheap' remedy is to prescribe opiate painkillers, hence their current 'rust belt' opiate epidemic and awful in 40's male death rate.
What other busted Marxist flush card has Corbyn & his MSM useful fools got to play with their NHS poker 7-high off-hand when other parties are playing high runs and flushes in comparison? Corbyn is a thick useless fool who will use pay-to-play propaganda from any hostile government or terrorist organisation to try to fulfil his hard-left futile needs & needs to be finally crushed in GE 2019 for what he is.
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Topic: The NHS and a trade deal with the USA. (Read 3353 times)