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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Problem with the NHS is, they seem to cutting in the wrong places. There are countless layers of management, bureaucracy, red tape, ethnic awareness courses and all manner of fripperies that should be cut back. The government don't seem to have the ability to do it and, of course, the pen pushers are very skilled at protecting their own positions, if nothing else.

As for the likes of Spain and Italy, I would like to see them cutting right back to the bone on their health service, welfare state and anything else. Anything, just as long as they don't have to come begging for bail outs which we then have to help fund via the IMF. Due to a combination of the world financial situation and the willful wastefulness of the last government, we are now in financial dire straits. Other countries like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain are in an even worse position, because they've been living beyond their means on an even grander scale than us. Why should we bail them out when we are trying to pay our own debt off?

The only problem there Wyn is if these countries cut back on their health care, where will they come, to the land of milk and honey and do gooders who will fight for their rights to get treatment here not now afforded to them in their own hard pressed country on legal aide of course