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Old 09-11-2016, 02:35 AM
 
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We are told this morning that the NHS has reached tipping point as a result of insufficient funding.
Should we pay more to preserve this service that we profess to love so much or are we going to sit back and watch it slide into private hands?
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Old 09-11-2016, 09:14 AM
 
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We are told this morning that the NHS has reached tipping point as a result of insufficient funding.
Should we pay more to preserve this service that we profess to love so much or are we going to sit back and watch it slide into private hands?
I hope to see more input on here about this topic because I keep seeing posts on facebook from my English friends. One is a nurse and she posts about her pride in the NHS. This foreigner thinks you have a good thing going and your system is or was the envy of all Americans who knew much about it. Many Americans go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills, people constantly worry about affording to see a doctor, people go without medical insurance entirely, people are locked into jobs due to needing the health insurance they can only buy though that job. It's hard to start your own business because health insurance is purchased through a job.

Maybe it was the unbridled immigration that derailed the NHS. I don't know that much about it but if that was the reason, that problem has ended, right? People who use the NHS but who never paid into it.

If the NHS ever gets into private hands, you could end up with the greedy, out of control hodgepodge of a mess that we have over here in the USA. Health for the rich.
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Old 09-11-2016, 09:44 AM
 
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Maybe it was the unbridled immigration that derailed the NHS. I don't know that much about it but if that was the reason, that problem has ended, right?.
Nothing has changed since the Brexit vote, as far as I know.
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:18 PM
 
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I am an American doctor.

The NHS will fail for the same reason that the Soviet Union failed. Good.
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:29 PM
 
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I am an American doctor.

The NHS will fail for the same reason that the Soviet Union failed. Good.
Would you care to elaborate on that a little?
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:32 PM
 
Location: England
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I am an American doctor.

The NHS will fail for the same reason that the Soviet Union failed. Good.
What are your reasons for wanting to see the NHS fail?
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:38 PM
 
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I am an American doctor.

The NHS will fail for the same reason that the Soviet Union failed. Good.
What kind of idiotic comment is that?
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:40 PM
 
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We are told this morning that the NHS has reached tipping point as a result of insufficient funding.
Should we pay more to preserve this service that we profess to love so much or are we going to sit back and watch it slide into private hands?
You will curse the day if you get a medical industry like the one in the U.S.
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:46 PM
 
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The NHS is a failing system, just replace it with a better system that works for your taxpayers. Government control of means of production and of control and costs of labor of any industry does not work. And stop whining about it and get it fixed, before it fails.
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:57 PM
 
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The NHS is a failing system, just replace it with a better system that works for your taxpayers. Government control of means of production and of control and costs of labor of any industry does not work. And stop whining about it and get it fixed, before it fails.
Perhaps you can offer a solution to this crisis?
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