I am always flabagasted how anyone can protest against nationalised health care.
I can't comprehend the argument against it, let alone the mass protest against it. For all the photos of children with banners saying something like "My grandchildren will still be paying off your debt; no to national health schemes", I can't help but thinking their grandchildren's lives, and children, and their own, will struggle to reach that far.

As much as we all complain about the NHS, and everyone who has dealt with it, knows it has mass problems, I wouldn't give it up for anything. I've been in and out of private _and_ NHS healthcare all my life, and they're both very important, I only gave up Private healthcare when my (and my Dads) monthly bill came up to £600/month for the insurance; _and_ it wouldn't cover any existing conditions. If there wasn't the NHS, I would be so fucked.

I actually have wanted to move to the States, for a year or two, for quite some time, but I simply can't afford it with their healthcare, I need very expensive treatment every couple of months (Remicade/Inflixnab). I should be on double-dose this year (I've become alergic to all alternatives), I'm waiting for the NHS Funding for the whole thing, and there is a very good chance I would get it; but in the States I wouldn't get any treatment at all, as far as I can see.

Have you heard Dan Bull's "America"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLc_iNw-6Gw It's quite insightful.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 13:47, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It's all a media campaign, really.
If you look at it logically, socialized medicine is the only rational way to go. The system we have set up here now is asinine.

The objections I tend to hear are from people ranting about big government or them furrinners takin' up all our taxes or some other such drivel that they've been fed by talk radio and FOX news. The conservatives live up to their name by being afraid of any change at all, while the rest of us react with bewilderment.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned the health industry has deep pockets and can finance all sorts of strange things in the media and in legislation. Palin got her jab in with the death panels bit, for instance- absolute horseshit as anyone can see, but there were a lot of idiots who bought it whole.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 27 Feb 2011, 14:40, Reply)

*Googles Death Pannels*
news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090813/pl_politico/26078

Is she actually mad? I'm not anti-money, or anti captialist in any shape or form. I don't think people with money equate to people who are evil. I'm financially typically middle-class. The thought that she would equate a govermant medical pannel as to a 'death pannel' or being worst than something identical based by a private institution with their only motivation being finance; is disgusting. What a vile women, her child would have had more care under an NHS than a private medical institution, weather she's got a few million in the bank, or a few hundred. She's mad, she really is, so un-in-touch with the general public that it's laughable.

I can understand the anti immigrant stance, but they're forgetting that the NHS isn't 100% free, it's just A&E that is. You can't pull up into the UK with Cancer from a non-EU state and say "I am intitled to free healthcare, give me drugs". They won't let you walk out without treatment for a broken leg, but they won't be any serious aftercare.

I always find it interesting the religous stance that the conservatives have gotten, they're the furvest thing from Jesus's principles that I could imagine.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 15:23, Reply)