Britain’s National Health Service is an embarrassment to the Western world and the only thing that puzzles me more than President Obama’s admiration for this creaking, archaic, quasi-Stalinist, state-health-allocation relic is our future Prime Minister Dave Cameron’s.
At least President Obama has the excuse of being a Socialist. Dave Cameron is a Conservative. Supposedly. Yet listening to the Today programme this morning as his dreary, Pooterish Health Spokesman Andrew Lansley officially and emphatically distanced himself, Cameron and the Tory party from Dan Hannan’s “negative and distorted” view of the NHS, one did yet again find oneself asking the question: “Why the **** should we vote for these Blairite pantywaists? Does any of them – Hannan excepted – have a clue what are meant by ‘Tory values’?”
Stumbled across this and assumed it was satire, apparantly not by your books, unless this whole thing is satire, you couldn’t be more of a stereotypical modern day Daily Mail type Tory. What is more shocking is you are English, yet commit the horrible repeated act of our friends across the pond, in showing you don’t understand what “socialist” means. At all. Hint, Obama isn’t going to stop you being a billionaire. He isn’t going to give Trade Unions lots of power. He isn’t going redistribute wealth (that’s the important one). He’s a modern liberal.
Rather than using awful hyperbole like calling our welfare state “quasi-Stalinist”, could you give a rational explanation as to why the Yank’s beloved “free” system, which costs double their percentage GDP compared to ours (16% compared to 8%) and leaves 50 million people, roughly the population of England, uninsured, is so great?
See that’s where us modern liberals (and our hero Obama) differ from you libertarian conservatives, we look at reality. A right is only really yours if you can use it. All of us have the right to stay in the Ritz- but we can’t. All Americans have the right to choose their favourite healthcare provider- only for 50 million of them, they can’t actually afford any.
Don’t think that means rights aren’t important, they are very important. We don’t advocate removing any, except perhaps the gun one, seeing as the right not to get murdered is probably a bit more important. You just have to pay a bit more tax, so the poorest members of society don’t die of cureable diseases. Bummer, I know.