Quoting Ant McWatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt stated April 23rd: > > I see by this mornings "Independent" and "Guardian" that England's National > Health Service has got more troubles. Headline from the Independent: > "Doctors > report "We no longer have free health care.'" Headline from the Guardian: > "Brown faces biggest NHS strike in 20 years." No need to bore you with the > details. > > > Ant McWatt comments: > > Platt, > > As ever, it's like "preparing a thesis" to follow up your unreferenced > quotes... > > Anyway, at least it's good to see you finally recognising the "Independent" > and "Guardian" as relatively reliable news sources if a bit strange to see > you inadvertently warning us yet again about relying on privatised medicine > as the primary health care provider in a civillised society. To quote > Christoph Lees (a consultant obstetrician and maternal-foetal medicine at > Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge) in the Independent article you refer to: > > "While welcoming patients' ability to enhance their care by choosing > different parts of a package of care from the NHS and private sectors, we > must recognise that this approach may disenfranchise those unable or > unwilling to pay for 'top-up care'." > > "There is no point pretending ['top- up'] charges don't exist. We would ask > the Department of Health to clarify its position regarding the interaction > of 'top-up' payments with NHS care."
Hi Ant: If you wish I'll be glad to copy and post the entire articles from these papers. But in the interests of time and space, anyone who is interested can go to the respective websites and access the articles. You can try to spin what are obviously shortcoming of the NHS as the fault of Thatcher, but I'll let the articles speak for themselves. As for the rest, your anecdotal sob story is touching. Would that we all lived in a land of milk and honey near a big rock candy mountain. Maybe in socialist heaven . . . Best, 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/
