Tuesday 2 August 2011

Save the NHS from becoming commercial

I want to save the NHS in the UK from becoming a commercial enterprise. The market model doesn't suit caring for each other. Particularly pressing is the matter of organising and paying for the care of the elderly. This should be organised by and paid for entirely by the NHS funded by the public purse. The Service was founded to spread the cost of healthcare across the population as a whole. "We are all in it together and if you get into difficulties we'll look after you because you matter to us all." That should be the NHS philosophy. It was at its founding and it should stay that way.

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