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Originally Posted by g jones
Everyone in America does have Health Care Cover. It's a myth they don't. What people mean is full health insurance covered by private policy. 50million americans don't have private insurance but rely on medicare, the national health service for Americans. And it is a poor service that covers little. It is where our NHS will end up I believe if we let private health care enter our system.
It's that point which is missed in Conservative proposals. Once we have 2 classes of Health Care, we will open the floodgates year on year to a widening health care service gap. It is inevitable.
Lets be honest. The Blair Government has widened inequality despite promises to narrow the gap. Governments have ideals and don;t live up them. Jam tomorrow I think they call it. Blair may have helped the bottom 10% significantly, pensioner credits, more jobs, tax credits in general (a mess) but it has allowed the top 50% run away.
My criticism of my own government is it has continued the Tory philosophy that trickle down works. Let the rich get rich and and the poor will benefit.
It never works. It is why I would never vote Tory. We need a progressive taxation system like Scandanavia. We need strong legislation to protect families and communities (such as Post Office's eg) like in France. We need sometimes to say NO to market forces and YES to people power.
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You just said trickle down doesn't work, and that Blair kept the Conservative ideas on it. Yet you also said Blair has improved the lives of those at the bottom financially. If that isn't using the market to distribute wealth what is?
As for Conservative NHS proposals, you seem to hint they want privatisation which isn't what they want at all. They want to keep the NHS, they want to stop Labours closures, they want to save communities, they want to save post offices, want more power to the individual, give them control over their own lives not run it for them. Are you sure you're in the right party, because Labour have done all they can over the last 10 years to eradicate personal freedom, raise taxes to finance their failed NHS policy of "pump as much money in, I'm sure it'll fix itself sooner or later", hinder Police performance with target after target, hinder NHS performance with target after target and completely ignore the bottom, the very foundations of the NHS, the staff. You think things were bad in the NHS in the 80's/90's? Go to Blackburn Royal Hospital and go ask the staff about their moral, because I'm telling you now, it might have been underfunded back then when our economy wasn't so good, but everyone I've spoken to preferred how it was run. Infact, somebody who has worked their 50 years as a nurse told me it has NEVER been so bad, may I remind you the NHS is only 60.