Conservatives Support Britain's Socialized Medicine, Blog On It (The British Conservatives, Anyway)
The American right wing's attack on the British National Health Service is now getting a strong rebuke -- from the British right wing, who are joining in on the Twitter campaign of Britons proud of the NHS.
Among the many British politicians, journalists and Twitter users chipping in to debunk the attacks on the NHS is now Conservative Party Leader David Cameron, who is heavily favored to win the next election and become Prime Minister. He's now
People still care about the issues they care about, and thanks to the internet they can voice their concerns whenever they want. Just look at all the support which the NHS has received on Twitter over the last couple of days. It is a reminder - if one were needed - of how proud we in Britain are of the NHS.
Millions of people are grateful for the care they have received from the NHS - including my own family. One of the wonderful things about living in this country is that the moment you're injured or fall ill - no matter who you are, where you are from, or how much money you've got - you know that the NHS will look after you.
"I support the NHS 100% and the Conservative Party supports the NHS 100%," he told the BBC. "We are the party that gives the biggest amount of support to the NHS. It is incredibly important to my family. It is incredibly important to this country."
Cameron's reassurance that the Tories support their country's socialized health care comes after one of his party's members of the European Parliament bashed the NHS and called it a "60 year mistake." Cameron declared: "He does have some quite eccentric views about some things, and political parties always include some people who don't toe the party line on one issue or another issue."
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August 14, 2009 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Canadian Conversatives also strongly support Canada's Health Care system, too...looking forward to American conservatives supporting your own version in the near future. :)
August 14, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that will kind of depend on the weather report in Hell. Have there been any frost warnings there lately?
August 14, 2009 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh I disagree. American "Conservatives" support medicare and social security and they vilified both programs before they were enacted. They said virtually the same thing about those programs like they are saying about healthcare reform. Once enacted, they will take credit for it an won't touch it, like social security. Hypocrites.
August 15, 2009 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have just one thing to say to Mr. Cameron:
"I WANT YOUR COUNTRY BACK!!!!"
August 15, 2009 8:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll go you one better. We should start a movement demanding that the UK take their former colonies back,and not just the original 13,to sweeten the deal we'll throw in the other 37 states at no extra charge.
August 16, 2009 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
I had my third heart surgery in British Columbia in Canada. The total cost of the surgery for our family was $34.00 for 34 days of care after having two heart valves repaired. It was not my last heart surgery. In fact, it was #2 out of a total of 4. I have had heart surgery in Hawaii while I was covered by Kaiser's health insurance, in Canada covered by provincial medical insurance. Both of these surgeries cost me $1 each day as my portion of the hospital bill. My other heart surgeries occurred in Texas and in Arizona. In Texas I had group insurance from my job as an RN working for a University of Texas Health Care hospital. The last surgery was covered by medicare since I had already retired. I now have two artificial valves so I will not need another heart surgery. I list these surgeries to show that I was not indigent. I have been able to work as an RN most of my life so I had good medical insurance except for the last surgery covered by medicare. The long list of surgeries were needed because my father had died and my single mom did not have enough money during the depression to take me to the doctor from her many jobs when I had rheumatic fever at age 7. So for want of $4.00 medications, heart surgery has cost the health care system nearly $450,000.00. All this for want of the few dollars for medication when I was 7 and 12. Now in my late 70s, I realize how sad that I have used so many health care dollars and poor children still go without adequate medical care in our country. Just from a public expenditure point of view, our health care makes no earthly sense. Disease prevention has to be our goal.
August 16, 2009 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink