Quoting Ant McWatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was sorry to see in your replies to my last e-mail about Dalrymples > conservative propaganda that you avoided my point that Margaret Thatcher (a > hard-line conservative _not_ a socialist) was the primary harbinger of a > great amount of unnecessary bureaucracy and related expense in British > government over the last 25 years and, moreover, appear to think that there > is no problem that most of these "bureaucratic" ideas that the Thatcher > orientated governments imposed on the British public came from business > gurus of the American right.
Since this is your interpretation of recent British history without citing references I took it with a grain of salt, especially since the Labour government which has been in power since 1997 as, according to Wikipedia, adopted many of Thatcher's policies since its failures in subsequent elections. > You then quoted an unreferenced (!) Telegraph article which yet again shows > that the use of internal markets of primary care trusts within the NHS > (which, to remind you, were introduced by Thatcher) are an important factor > in the loss of quality in the system. A genuine Labour party would have > removed this conservative aberration from the system years ago. Even still, > having the NHS is far better for the majority of UK citizens than the > relatively expensive insurance based system in the US (where it is easier > for the unlucky, uneducated and poor to be excluded from high quality > healthcare). You call waiting in line for 4 months to get a necessary operation "quality" health care? Regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
