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Originally Posted by andrewb
I thank Labour for introducing the NHS some 61 years ago
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Something you couldn't have done if it was down to the successive Conservative governments, prior to the formation of the N.H.S., because we still wouldn't have one now.
We'd be like America, where you get treatment if you can afford it, or if you're in the position to pay for health insurance.
I know personally people in the U.S.A. who aren't able to get the drugs they need for serious degenerative neuroligical diseases because they can't afford them, or their insurance companies, whose primary motive is of course profit, have found a clause which stops them funding certain treatments.
Happily a situation we don't have in this country, thanks to the unique nationalised health service we have, devised and created by a Labour government.