Since y'all (the US) have been so forthcoming about the failings of the NHS in recent weeks, our news media has stepped up to defend it. An interesting take on the current American system, and the well-meaning and hard-working medics, doctors, nurses, dentists ,opticians et al who are desperately trying to plug the gaps by working for free:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-sto...5875-21602170/
Worth also checking out the side stories about British conservatives running down the NHS and jumping on the American Right's NHS-bashing bandwagon. This has become a bit of an embarrassing story for the leader of the Opposition, who has spent the last year or so trying to convince the electorate that not only is the NHS safe in their hands, but that they 'are the party of the NHS' and that far from dismantling it they want to invest more. Now one of his own party's MEP's has come out and declared the NHS a 'sixty year mistake', whilst another has published a book which basically calls for it to be dismantled: he must be sitting somewhere with his head in his hands wondering how he can get his hardliners to shut the fuck up :P
08-17-2009, 03:34 PM
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