I’ve just attended an online meeting on Zoom of my local Labour party in south Bristol. There was an excellent report by our local MP. Karin Smythe, who mostly laid down the issues involved in the government’s new health and social care bill, and Labour’s opposition to it. The opposition largely consists of removing the participation of private healthcare companies on the new commissioning groups the Tories are proposing. They also want an end to compulsory tendering.
All good stuff. And I believe that Smyth is sincere in her opposition, but I don’t have the same faith in Stormfront Starmer.
But she also dropped a bombshell. Sajid Javid also wants to introduce another Health and Social Care Bill and is talking about a ‘Health and Social Care Levy’. No-one is sure what it is, but it looks like a form of private health insurance.
Private health insurance and privatisation. This is the American system that Thatcher wanted to introduce.
I’ve got friends who come from medical families and who trained as doctors and pharmacists. For all you Tories and Blairites reading this, just ask yourselves: Do I have £50,000 to spare for an operation? Because this is the average cost of one.
Do you want to spend the equivalent of £200 simply for seeing your doctor, never mind prescription?
Can I afford £50 to spend on medicine, as this is what some of the medicine that we get from the pharmacies really cost?
40,000 people die every year in America because they no longer can afford their medical treatment.
Inability to afford medical care is either the primary, or at least the secondary cause of bankruptcy in the ‘Land of the Free’.
Do you want this squalid, sorry state of affairs for Blighty and its great people?
I damn well don’t!
If this is true, then Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock, Iain Duncan Smith, Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson and all the rest are vermin. Utter, murderous vermin.
Tags: Bankruptcy, Boris Johnson, Conservatives, Deaths, doctors, Ian Duncan Smith, Karin Smyth, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Matt Hancock, NHS, NHS Privatisation, Pharmacists, Private Health Insurance, Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid
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October 14, 2021 at 8:29 pm |
“Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock, Iain Duncan Smith, Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson and all the rest are vermin. Utter, murderous vermin.”
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