This is utter rubbish. I was in A&E last week with abdomen pains. I saw the triage nurse in 10 minutes and got 2 co-codamol tablets for the pain. They didn't work so I saw her again in 20 minutes and got tramadol. When I was seen by a doctor one of the first things he did was give me morphine to totally kill the pain. And this was on a Friday night!!
Fact. US child mortality rates are higher and adult life span is shorter than most advance UHC's nations including the UK. The US spends approximately 50% more on healthcare yet is rated only37%in healthcare by the W.H.O France being number 1 the UK rated 17th (but France spends more than the UK). Fact.Most US citizens filing for bankruptcy in the US were middle-class, well-educated homeowners who had medical insurance. Number of uninsured Americans rises to 50.7 million. USA TODAY.All Facts
You don't HAVE yo wait. You can pay for private healthcare if you so choose, but a nationalized healthcare is there to use if you CAN'T pay for it. Unlike 50 million Americans.
Bollocks. Anyone can buy painkillers from a hospital chemist. My fiance can't swallow chalky tablets so I bought her capsules instead. The chemist is not open 24/7 because...its run by an outside company (they don't tell that story) who only want to trade during office hours. As for the NHS, my fiance went to the local Doctor for treatment for a headache, within 2 hours she was in a local hospital getting a CT scan, within 12 hours she'd had emergency neurosurgery that saved her life. Job done.
@ZoahLord Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
daniel hannan, as a millionaire can shut the hell up. the NHS is something all britons should be proud of (although i do agree that its become too bureaucratic). Nye Bevan, the NHS founder is to me one of the greatest britons we have ever produced. if the state isnt providing medical safety for its population, what is it there for>?
In comparing Friedman with Hitler I am simply stating the obvious they were both supreme egotist. Both having developed insane unworkable theories on how the world works and only they and those who were stupid enough to follow the bollocks they taught would find the promise land. It ain’t necessarily so
Why does Hannan not say how many people are employed in the US in their medical supply industry? Including all those employed in the US multi million dollar medical insurance industry with its vast support structures of claims checkers, legal departments, marketing sales etc etc etc is added to all those employed in the business end of medical care and compare that to those employed by the NHS. I'll bet it makes the Chinese army look like the Popes honour guard in comparison.
@TheFormation Yeah! That's great! I have an excellent idea to create jobs! Let's just pay people money to dig up holes in the ground and then fill them back up!
The level of economic ignorance shown in the comments is simply disgusting
@TheFormation FFS, I'm talking about the amount of bureacuracy in the NHS. That's what Daniel Hannan was talking about, so get your facts straight. That's what every politician says they are trying to do when they're passing reforms. Don't be so ignorant. You're talking like the US Health system is a completely laissez faire free market system. It's not. It has care for the poor and elderly. Try quantifying happiness. Life expectancy has a lot more factors than just health care.
@TheFormation Everyone is cared for, except that NHS can't provide the level of care in as short a time as possible as the people who need. Have you never read the horror stories of the NHS? I'm not American and you're showing typical leftist British ignorance. Britain has a higher unemployment rate than the US and its GDP growth rate contracted was -0.2% last quarter, whilst the US growth rate was 2.8% last quarter. Check your facts first before spewing your foolishness.
@gshooting Apart from that, the happiness i was referring to is a study that was carried out including 100s of different factors (including mental health issues, life expectancy, levels of education and illness, the proportion of personal bankruptcies ect)
while we're on the subject of personal bankruptcies, healthcare in america has been accredited for causing more bankruptcies than anything else, what an achievement, eh?
@gshooting I live in Britain and im speaking from experience. I have been to hospital a few times. Once i broke my arm badly and had to have it plated. i was seen within an hour and had my operation that night. "the horror stories of the NHS" are either complete lies or very isolated incidents, and even then they have been exaggerated.
Yes the British economy shrank by 0.2% last quarter but this is mostly because of implications with the eurozone.
@gshooting interestingly, i have read the NHS horror stories. However, when i looked into the stories more deeply, they invariably turned out to have been when the care was subcontracted to a private health firm.
US drug companies earn billions from price fixing --- billionaires fund FOX --- FOX tells innocent zombies what to want --- zombies want to be treated as slaves --- billionaires buy houses in gated communities --- zombies wonder what the hell happened and why they can't afford anything
@RelaxItsJustAFlare Go read a book you idiot. You don't know a damn thing about economics. Price controls happened during the world war. Drug companies are not a cartel, contrary to your crackpot conspiracy theories.
These people on here recounting their success with the NHS are merely the lucky ones. They're also only looking at the seen effects whilst completely ignoring the unseen effects.
@RPFS2008 "The majority of Brits are economically ignorant"? Unlike the majority of tea bagging Americans who all have 1st class honours degree in economics? Or believe in nuts cases like Friedman or Rand. What are the unseen effects? Oh! We don't have to pay for rip-off racketeers to supply us with private medical insurance before we are allowed to see a Dr.
@davijeph Nutcases like Friedman or Rand? Milton Friedman is one of the greatest economists who ever lived. Are you a complete fool? Do you know anything about economics that you don't have to resort to leftist talking points like "private medical insurers are rip-off racketeers?" Why the bloody hell do you think the Tories are reforming the NHS? Do you really think that system is sustainable?
Hundreds of British MoD medical staff in Iraq and Afghanistan who have save countless American Servicemen and woman are trained in NHS Hospitals. I'm not surprised that the same people who slam the NHS are the same people who warmonger.
Had to watch this when i read the title cause, as a person actually from the UK and is alive thanks to the NHS, along with millions of others, i just knew everything on this would be wrong.
@Erech01 Ok, cataract surgery, 8 months? No, my gran got it the very next day after being diagnosed, i got my appendix removed the same day it was diagnosed. I personally got an appointment on the same day I called the GP's, got seen diagnosed and treated within 3 hours. We have a mangificant healthcare system and I feel very sorry for those countries which don't have universal cover.
Daniel Hannan... Praised Enoch Powell and isn't even a member of parliament, only an MEP. And really? Are they really going to bring up cancer treatment? I was diagnosed with lymphoma, had the operation the next day and started chemo the week after and am now fully cured. The NHS saved my life.
Beck: 'I can't imagine what Americans will do when they have to wait...'
What do you imagine many Americans do right now when they can't get treated at all, Mr Beck?
Every morning I wake up and give thanks to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I was born in the comparatively sane UK. Here Glenn Beck would get laughed at anywhere he went (rather like Daniel Hannan).
"Only 43% rated it as excellent" is such an underwhelming statistic. another 40% probably rated it as "above average" in that study.
Plus, us english are an unenthusuatic, cynical bunch of bastards. A doctor could cure my erectile dysfunction by snapping his fingers then give me a free jetpack and I'd still rate his service as "pathetically trying way too hard".
I never knew who this Daniel Hannan bloke was until I started watching these clips. The guy is not even a back-bencher he is a non-entity! Cameron has distanced himself from this guy so I'm afraid he's hardly an expert on anything!
@lizziedavidson1987 he's the leader of blue labour. He's perfectly fine with government intervention in the economy. I'll give him a pass on the NHS because otherwise there wouldn't be a Tory party in existence. He's perfectly fine with heavy subsidies in green energy, like solar, although thankfully some of the back-benchers are starting to call him out on it.
I know this is anecdotal, but anyway. I'm from the UK and I had private health insurance there. When I broke my arm and told them I was going private at the hospital, not only was I put at the front of the queue, they called the head orthopedic surgeon in from his home to come and do the procedure, so I'm not sure what Hannan is talking about with his "no private money" comment. Now I live in the US and I pay a lot more for private insurance and never seem to get the red carpet treatment.
How can he say that the NHS is the UK's biggest budget item? According to the Budget of HM Treasury the income of the exchequer is £711Bn of which £120Bn will be spent on Healthcare. Oh that will be because he's only an EU minister.
Healthcare which is free at the point of use is the best thing about living in the UK.
Oh that and the BBC lol
How can one be informed with this news corporation, with their its political axe to grind? Such bias, while entertaining would not be allowed on the BBC.
yes it scares me going into an NHS hospital with the corridors full of jackbooted stormtroopers who shoot you if you dont comply with the strict rules of a hopeless failing healthcare system...NOT...
yes it scares me going into an NHS hospital with the corridors full of jackbooted stormtroopers who shoot you if you dont comply with the strict rules of a hopeless failing healthcare system...NOT...
spot the liar competition...oh look theres two of them..the words 'socialised medicine' was cooked up during the cold war to scare the pants off the americans..it was deliberate as they knew that fear is a strong tactic to get people to consume more and pay up for virtually anything...
The NHS is the 7th largest employer, not the 3rd. The 3rd is Wallmart, a company that is known to treat it's employees like crap. While the NHS, which I many others have benefited and love dearly, is known to give a good standard of care.
the 5 year survival rate is not 100%, in fact it is not even close. the 5 year survival rate of rich white guys is 100%, but guess what the survival rate of people living in trailers or in the projects is, a big fat 0%. In the UK its 77% if you're a bin man or a buisnessman
This guy doesn't even get air time in britain because he is a complete twat. Half the things he has said is lies. I went for a shoulder operation and received physio off the NHS and topped it up with personally paid physio.
@thongdongalong Um...no, he doesn't get air time because he actually believes in a free market and not socialist practices. The NHS is getting reformed soon anyway and will have more competition. Thinking it will survive for ever is wilful ignorance.
@gshooting Why would he not get air time for believing that? That's what the Tories want, and corporations want. So if he wasn't a complete dumb ass then they would be throwing him in the spotlight.
@thongdongalong lol, Tories are hardly free-market. They are just a slightly less socialist form of the Labour Party and who won't (and rightly) tolerate nonsense from Public sector unions. He is clearly not a dumbass, he went to Oxford FFS. Anyway, the times that he has come on Question Time, he's been well-received, surprisingly.
@gshooting So wait, nonsense from Unions, you mean let's not give the working class a voice? He went to oxford? :L YOU SIR are a complete moron, obviously believe all this everyone is middle class hype, which in turn has made you believe it is okay to support policies which will cripple the honest working man. YOU and your likes are what's wrong with this country! So I will not retract my previous comment suggesting you are a twat. Economic history or any other kind of history is not.
@gshooting Also calling something a socialist practice to mock it is moronic and shows your level of arrogance on subjects. Also the reforms are opposed by the people who actually know a thing or two.
@thongdongalong I'll continue to mock it and deride it as a socialist practice. Economic history is actually on my side of the argument. I don't know how you can quantify the country is against the reforms. It certainly ain't because of that former-union worker who was squawking like a hen at Andrew Lansley. If the reforms do get opposed, it's because we have a nation of mostly left-wing idiots.
Funny thing is. My girlfriend is American & everytime she comes here, she stocks up on medicine for her Diabetes which in the U.S costs $100 per bottle & here is for free. hmmm which one would you rather have, 3 hours waiting & free medicine or instant medicine and shit loads of money. The guy talks utter rubbish. The NHS is the greatest invention & the only thing Labour should be praised on
Over 40 million United States citizens, who do not have health insurance, will die if they get critically ill and a substantial amount more if they get an illness not covered by their policies. There are third world countries who care more for its poor and vulnerable.
the NHS is the best system in the world, no matter what your complaint about it, remember that you are not charged and that if you want private health care you still can, with companies like bupa. so slag it off as much as you like but the nhs will treat you no matter who you are or how much money you have
@Bloodlovefreak Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
a national health service is one of britains greatest assests! everyone is and should be entitled to free healthcare, its not perfect, nothing is but i would rather this than a system which is dominated by profiteering drug companies.
Bullshit, in all the studies I've seen the UK out ranks the US health system on everyone. The World Health Organisation ranked the UK's at 18 and the US's at 37 in 2000.
If problems about America's "private" healthcare were brought we would be here for seven hours not seven minutes. IMO it's not private healthcare at all it's a business which is morally wrong peoples lives should not be a business
Total bullshit, scaremongering propaganda...I'm British and proud of the NHS, It may not be perfect but it's a damn sight better than the American model where I better not be ill unless I can afford it,.
Wow, Glen Beck really knows how to conduct a challenging interview! There's nothing like debating an issue with somebody who has the same opinion as you. I wonder if Daniel spat or swallowed in the green room for Glen after the show.
You pay National Insurance contributions to build up your entitlement to certain state benefits, including the State Pension. The contributions you pay depend on how much you earn and whether you're employed or self-employed. You stop paying National Insurance contributions when you reach State Pension age. NI is absolutely nothing to do with any other tax based expenditure.
@BasilFawlty4444 lol you advocate a lynch mob for someone daring to challenge the sytem? You act like the nhs is perfect and people don't die needlessly due to monumental fuck ups within the nhs and the fact that our cancer survival rates are some of the lowest in the western world.
@sh4p3shifter He's not only challenging the system, he's telling blatant lies.
He may think what he wants about the NHS, but to lie to the extent it makes our country look bad is unacceptable.
UK cancer survival rates drastically improved under the last Labour government; just read the articles on the Cancer Research site. So there are isolated problems within the NHS, not a reflection upon the system.
It's not uncommon in America to be refused treatment if you have no insurance.
@arcanus121 Given that Hannan is the son of multi-Millionaire Anglo Irish Peruvian cotton farmers given the best private education that money can buy, lives in Spain, never used the NHS in his life (unlike David Cameron) he would be just the kind of far right no nothing nincompoop a buffoon like Beck would "interview"? about the NHS. I'm a pensioner and like almost all senior citizens in the UK have very little in the way of complaint against the NHS.
@gshooting Never voted socialist in my life, dislike unions especially those controlled by the far left, The Tories might or might not be reforming the NHS but they are keeping to its core principle of being "free at the point of need". Unlike Friedman and his Frankenstein sister Rand the Tories are canny enough to understand the need to keep a social framework within a capitalist economy. Mrs Thatcher " The NHS is safe in our hands" Now piss off your to stupid to talk to.
@davijeph "Free at the point of need?" What a nonsensical phrase. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Your generation overgrew the social framework and Britain needs to be brought back to fiscal sanity. You think Friedman was some kind of anarchist with no regard for the poor? You're an ignoramus who's probably never read or listen to anything about him. How about form a cogent argument without talking through your rear end?
@gshooting "Free at the point of need?" Is in NHS terms says precisely what you get on the tin we know its not free you stupid twat. I don't think Friedman was an anarchist I think he was an arrogant smirking bastard consumed by the false believe in his own brilliance and supposed superiority a bit like Hitler and with mindless idiots like you to support his twisted values potentially just as dangerous. Now fuck off its past your bed time.
@davijeph Your comparing Milton Friedman with Hitler? You've now disqualified yourself from the debate for revealing yourself to be a raving idiot. You need some Thorazine and a straight jacket, you utter fool.
@BasilFawlty4444 The entire government is full of horrible little Quisling bastards such as Hannan. Men who would slag of the country that has given them everything. The NHS saved me from bleeding to death from a stanley knife attack, they give my mother medication for her thyroid disorder and they repaired my fathers back to go to work. Fuck this pair of bumboys. Beck is a hysterical little jew cunt and Hannan is a fucking traitor who needs to learn about loyalty.
OMG!!! The UK national Health Service is an absolute national treasure. Who the feck is this Bald guy, he's a bare faced liar!!!!! The stats they showed are not correct!! How can this be allowed!! Lies and scaremongering. Don't believe a word he says people.
All I know is that when I made an appointment to see a doctor just for a general check up in a universal health care system I got to see them the next day, I made an appointment to see a doctor in the US I had to wait almost 6 months
@drage1862 I would also like a rebate for the NHS which now has to pay to remove thousands of PIP breast implants which it didnt perform because the private companies that made the operations are too cheap to fix what they should be legally required to fix.
@angel102ify As for your comment on the breast implants, I couldn't agree with you more, the private companies should pay to correct their mistakes, the burden shouldn't fall on the tax payer but on the other side of the coin not everybody that contracted MRSA or C diff received compensation from the NHS for pain & suffering, Only famous people like Lesley Ash get sums of £5,000,000 compensation for a hospital aquired infection, we just have to live with it.
The NHS is not perfect but anytime my wife or I have used it we have been treated quickly, professionally and with respect. Including when my wife gave birth, my daughter stopped breathing and the response was excellent, the staff are a credit to the NHS.
If you don't like it go to BUPA and pay for it.
I find it the ultimate irony that a member of the European Parlaiment is complaining about the NHS for too much red tape. lol
@frasermo I don't like it, but I can't go to BUPA. The reason for this is that the money I would otherwise use has already been stolen from me and applied to the NHS juggernaught. Where there is nationalisation there is no choice. Without choice there is no freedom.
@mathew2283 how about all the other taxes? like on your wage, your house, your car etc? where does that go? pissed up the wall is where it goes. Wouldn't you rather keep what you earn and be responisble for your self instead of relying on the government to take care of you from cradle to grave? why should I have to fork out for some idiot who's drunk too much and needs to get his stomach pumped or for some foreigner who hasn't paid a penny into the system?
@sh4p3shifter And if you get attacked and stabbed? DO you not want the police to respond and the NHS to treat you? If you get trapped in a burning building or car, do you not want the fire brigade to release you. Do you not want a state pension to fall back on? This is what NI does.
You know that health care is one of the main reasons for bankruptcy in the US?
@mathew2283 national insurance is just income tax with a fancy name, it makes no difference. we get taxed in many ways, and that is more than enough for police and fire etc. pension funds are bankrupt, NI doesn't go towards those things you mentioned, they go towards military entanglements, interest on debt, the EU, bureacracy etc. the public workforce don't pay anything into NI. You ignore the fact that there is no money left. The american system is a corporate cronyist run system. bad example.
The guy got his ass handed to him when David Cameron heard of this. I believe he was sodomized the day he got back to England, or as the press commented, he was "reprimanded"! That's ex Eton boys for ya! Totally gangsta!
yes we wait longer but thats because more people great treatment.if you take millions of people out of healthcare as they do in america your bound to get treatment quicker. in america if you have the money you get great healthcare but if you dont your screwed. in britain everyone no matter what their wealth is gets a decent standard of healthcare.
Im sorry but in order for fox news to analyse british healthcare properly they need someone who is not a member of a political party and therefore doesn't have a bias. i.e a doctor. daniel hannan is from the conservative party who believe in privatisation of our system.
NHS made in my hometown. Developed on the idea of miners pooling money together to fund for eachothers health care, if they couldn't afford it. I have been very well looked after by it and so my family. This video fails to acknowledge the countless poor americans who have died from the lack of healthcare. Its funny how many countries have taken up the succesful NHS and how america hasn't. but there always right.
Daniel Hannan = right wing scum who was publicly reviled by his own political party on this issue. He is not representitive of Great Britain.
P.S. Thank you NHS for giving my mum free hip replacement and rehabilitation treatment and myself for when I broke my arm being stupid and falling out of a tree. :)
@drage1862 wow! one thing ive always promoted is class harmony having a working class dad and middle class mum, by reducing tax for those who can afford private healthcare how does that reduce burden for the NHS? It isnt about beating down the successful its about contributuion to society its about promoting every persons humanright to free healthcare Yes there is and always will be wastage in the NHS but lets not asume everyone who uses the NHS are 'lazy' & 'Feckless' that shows class snobbery
@thenorthstates I didn't say EVERYONE who uses the NHS were lazy feckless bastards but many who use it are lazy scroungers with a sense of entitlement who think it's the duty of others to pay for their treatment, I don't have private health care, so I use the NHS & believe it or not I believe in the concept of the NHS but it's abused & things have to change, not all the people who pay for private health care are super rich, why do you think they should pay twice ?
@drage1862 You can easily enough decline employee healthcare from your company and remain purely with the NHS and not affecting your normal tax outcome, for those rich enough to pay for private healthcare how can there be any sympathy when their income is great enough to pay for it, surely those people shouldn't feel to hard done by, by making the same contribution as everyone else to their community? If the NHS didn't exist we'd be taxed just as much though the money would go on something else
@thenorthstates I detect class envy in your last comment, I think people who pay for private health care should get a reduction in their national insurance contributions, they are already helping the community by reducing the burden on the NHS. I don't see why people who become a success should pay for NHS treatment for all the lazy feckless bastards who think it's someone elses responsibility to look after them. Not to mention health tourists who free load at our expense !
The thing these people do not understand is the NHS is NOT compulsary, you can choose to pay for private healthcare if you can afford it. The NHS is for the average person who can't afford £3,000 for a knee operation.
Without the NHS I would of lost my Uncle, Grandad, Dad and my Grandma wouldn't have had such a long and healthy life. You tell me the NHS doesn't work.
@thenorthstates It isn't compulsory that you use the NHS but if you are tax payer it is compulsory to pay for it whether you use it or not, the government don't give people a rebate in their national insurance contributions if they decide to pay for private health care as well & if you are lucky enough to receive private health care as part of an employment package your tax code will reflect that as a benefit & you'll pay more tax, How fair is that ?
@drage1862 ITs as fair as you not getting a rebate from the police if your house doesnt get burgled that month.
In Britain you are free to have private healthcare, but if you get hit by a truck in your car, its not BUPA ambulances that come and scrape you off the road is it? Its not Westfield nurses and doctors who pump your chest to keep you alive, is it?
@angel102ify The police is an entirely different case because they are the sole provider of law enforcement. I didn't say that people shouldn't contribute to the NHS because as you rightly say, it is the NHS that provide emergency treatment & an ambulance service. I still say people who pay for private medical health care should get a reduction in their contributions for freeing up NHS beds when they use private facilities for operations.
1) I wonder how his salary compares to the average Brit (and even American)
2) NHS staff in general are polite and efficient
3) You have to check medical records first before you casual hand out drugs to people and his friend cannot bribe NHS staff into giving them to him quicker
I'm not even going to argue against this im just going to post life expectancy from other contraries with universal health care Mexico 76.5 America 78.1 Chile 78.8 Germany 79.8 UK 80.1 Austria 80.1 public and privet option Canada 80.7 France 81.1 Israel 81.6 Hong Kong 82.7 mixed public and privet but is still covers everyone our health care may not be the best in the world but don't blame it on being public health care
In the U.S., C. diff has caused as many as 3 million cases of diarrhea and colitis per year. In 1989 it was reported that 7& of patients admitted to a hospital and 28% of patients who were hospitalized had positive cultures for the organism. In the 1990’s it rose to 3-40/1000,000 and by 2005 it was 84/100,00. So much for that one.
This is utter rubbish. I was in A&E last week with abdomen pains. I saw the triage nurse in 10 minutes and got 2 co-codamol tablets for the pain. They didn't work so I saw her again in 20 minutes and got tramadol. When I was seen by a doctor one of the first things he did was give me morphine to totally kill the pain. And this was on a Friday night!!
callumbm 16 hours ago
Here in the UK - if you need paracetamol, it's 15p for 24 pills at Tesco (around 10c). You are limited to 2 packs though.
This video is UTTER BOLLOX.
jazzx251 18 hours ago
@jazzx251 In a pharmacy you can buy up to 100 paracetamol tablets over the counter without a prescription
callumbm 16 hours ago
Fact. US child mortality rates are higher and adult life span is shorter than most advance UHC's nations including the UK. The US spends approximately 50% more on healthcare yet is rated only37%in healthcare by the W.H.O France being number 1 the UK rated 17th (but France spends more than the UK). Fact.Most US citizens filing for bankruptcy in the US were middle-class, well-educated homeowners who had medical insurance. Number of uninsured Americans rises to 50.7 million. USA TODAY.All Facts
davijeph 23 hours ago
mmmm, do you want more tongue when i suck your balls mr. beck.
harrisonkew92 1 day ago
@harrisonkew92 lol!!
khi195 1 day ago
You don't HAVE yo wait. You can pay for private healthcare if you so choose, but a nationalized healthcare is there to use if you CAN'T pay for it. Unlike 50 million Americans.
5hower5horts 1 day ago
Bollocks. Anyone can buy painkillers from a hospital chemist. My fiance can't swallow chalky tablets so I bought her capsules instead. The chemist is not open 24/7 because...its run by an outside company (they don't tell that story) who only want to trade during office hours. As for the NHS, my fiance went to the local Doctor for treatment for a headache, within 2 hours she was in a local hospital getting a CT scan, within 12 hours she'd had emergency neurosurgery that saved her life. Job done.
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@ZoahLord Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
marionetemanJ 1 day ago
daniel hannan, as a millionaire can shut the hell up. the NHS is something all britons should be proud of (although i do agree that its become too bureaucratic). Nye Bevan, the NHS founder is to me one of the greatest britons we have ever produced. if the state isnt providing medical safety for its population, what is it there for>?
maxthemadman 2 days ago
In comparing Friedman with Hitler I am simply stating the obvious they were both supreme egotist. Both having developed insane unworkable theories on how the world works and only they and those who were stupid enough to follow the bollocks they taught would find the promise land. It ain’t necessarily so
davijeph 2 days ago
Why does Hannan not say how many people are employed in the US in their medical supply industry? Including all those employed in the US multi million dollar medical insurance industry with its vast support structures of claims checkers, legal departments, marketing sales etc etc etc is added to all those employed in the business end of medical care and compare that to those employed by the NHS. I'll bet it makes the Chinese army look like the Popes honour guard in comparison.
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@davijeph Maybe because all that employment costs the US Healthcare System so much money?
Just because it employs the most people or markets itself well, doesn't necessarily mean it's the best or the most efficient.
hedge1878 1 day ago
yes the NHS is the third largest employer in the world. whats wrong with that?
sorry our country's government tries to keep its citizens in work...
TheFormation 2 days ago
@TheFormation Yeah! That's great! I have an excellent idea to create jobs! Let's just pay people money to dig up holes in the ground and then fill them back up!
The level of economic ignorance shown in the comments is simply disgusting
gshooting 2 days ago
@gshooting
these people arent being paid to dig up holes... they're being paid to be doctors and nurses.
the NHS employs both my parents and myself, hopefully next year.
the US is the ONLY developed country without an NHS.
wake up and get with the reality of modern times.
how can it be that bad when our country has a higher employment rate than yours and is less in debt?
the people are happier, the life expectancy is higher and everyone is cared for.
typical american ignorance.
TheFormation 1 day ago
@TheFormation FFS, I'm talking about the amount of bureacuracy in the NHS. That's what Daniel Hannan was talking about, so get your facts straight. That's what every politician says they are trying to do when they're passing reforms. Don't be so ignorant. You're talking like the US Health system is a completely laissez faire free market system. It's not. It has care for the poor and elderly. Try quantifying happiness. Life expectancy has a lot more factors than just health care.
gshooting 1 day ago
@TheFormation Everyone is cared for, except that NHS can't provide the level of care in as short a time as possible as the people who need. Have you never read the horror stories of the NHS? I'm not American and you're showing typical leftist British ignorance. Britain has a higher unemployment rate than the US and its GDP growth rate contracted was -0.2% last quarter, whilst the US growth rate was 2.8% last quarter. Check your facts first before spewing your foolishness.
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TheFormation 10 hours ago
@gshooting Apart from that, the happiness i was referring to is a study that was carried out including 100s of different factors (including mental health issues, life expectancy, levels of education and illness, the proportion of personal bankruptcies ect)
while we're on the subject of personal bankruptcies, healthcare in america has been accredited for causing more bankruptcies than anything else, what an achievement, eh?
TheFormation 10 hours ago
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@gshooting I live in Britain and im speaking from experience. I have been to hospital a few times. Once i broke my arm badly and had to have it plated. i was seen within an hour and had my operation that night. "the horror stories of the NHS" are either complete lies or very isolated incidents, and even then they have been exaggerated.
Yes the British economy shrank by 0.2% last quarter but this is mostly because of implications with the eurozone.
TheFormation 10 hours ago
@gshooting your unemployment rate is nothing to brag about when there is less than a 0.1% difference.
how bad would unemployment be if it wasnt for the NHS?
TheFormation 10 hours ago
@gshooting interestingly, i have read the NHS horror stories. However, when i looked into the stories more deeply, they invariably turned out to have been when the care was subcontracted to a private health firm.
TheClockworkPenguin 8 hours ago
...and that is why nobody has heard of Daniel Hannan.
psweep 2 days ago
US drug companies earn billions from price fixing --- billionaires fund FOX --- FOX tells innocent zombies what to want --- zombies want to be treated as slaves --- billionaires buy houses in gated communities --- zombies wonder what the hell happened and why they can't afford anything
RelaxItsJustAFlare 2 days ago
@RelaxItsJustAFlare Go read a book you idiot. You don't know a damn thing about economics. Price controls happened during the world war. Drug companies are not a cartel, contrary to your crackpot conspiracy theories.
gshooting 2 days ago
These people on here recounting their success with the NHS are merely the lucky ones. They're also only looking at the seen effects whilst completely ignoring the unseen effects.
The majority of Brits are economically ignorant.
RPFS2008 3 days ago
@RPFS2008 "The majority of Brits are economically ignorant"? Unlike the majority of tea bagging Americans who all have 1st class honours degree in economics? Or believe in nuts cases like Friedman or Rand. What are the unseen effects? Oh! We don't have to pay for rip-off racketeers to supply us with private medical insurance before we are allowed to see a Dr.
davijeph 2 days ago
@davijeph Nutcases like Friedman or Rand? Milton Friedman is one of the greatest economists who ever lived. Are you a complete fool? Do you know anything about economics that you don't have to resort to leftist talking points like "private medical insurers are rip-off racketeers?" Why the bloody hell do you think the Tories are reforming the NHS? Do you really think that system is sustainable?
gshooting 2 days ago
@davijeph
"nuts cases like Friedman"
Thanks for proving my point.
RPFS2008 2 days ago
Who?
knivesmcgraw 3 days ago
Google "Britain's former Deputy Prime Minister tells America - "Ignore Hannan. Britain's proud of the NHS!"
pbertiny 4 days ago
Hundreds of British MoD medical staff in Iraq and Afghanistan who have save countless American Servicemen and woman are trained in NHS Hospitals. I'm not surprised that the same people who slam the NHS are the same people who warmonger.
hekk414 4 days ago
who is this british twat? of course fox would have to pick a dickhead from britain!
Dontgetmetwisted 4 days ago
Wow what a retarded ending comment. "The third largest employer in the world!" The last thing we want right now is jobs!
PugzM 4 days ago
@PugzM Public Sector Bureaucrats you idiot.
Sheesh. I'm embarrased by own nation when it comes to economics, you're mostly a bunch of socialist idiots.
gshooting 2 days ago
Had to watch this when i read the title cause, as a person actually from the UK and is alive thanks to the NHS, along with millions of others, i just knew everything on this would be wrong.
Erech01 4 days ago
@Erech01 Ok, cataract surgery, 8 months? No, my gran got it the very next day after being diagnosed, i got my appendix removed the same day it was diagnosed. I personally got an appointment on the same day I called the GP's, got seen diagnosed and treated within 3 hours. We have a mangificant healthcare system and I feel very sorry for those countries which don't have universal cover.
Erech01 4 days ago
Wow this bald headed fuck is making me cry, not in laughter but in shame of the venomous lies he spews.
gav111223 5 days ago
Daniel Hannan... Praised Enoch Powell and isn't even a member of parliament, only an MEP. And really? Are they really going to bring up cancer treatment? I was diagnosed with lymphoma, had the operation the next day and started chemo the week after and am now fully cured. The NHS saved my life.
danguy1001 5 days ago
@danguy1001
"Daniel Hannan... Praised Enoch Powell"
Hello Mr. Demagogue. Funny comment considering Hannan himself is an immigrant...
RPFS2008 2 days ago
Beck: 'I can't imagine what Americans will do when they have to wait...'
What do you imagine many Americans do right now when they can't get treated at all, Mr Beck?
Every morning I wake up and give thanks to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I was born in the comparatively sane UK. Here Glenn Beck would get laughed at anywhere he went (rather like Daniel Hannan).
H3000mk2 5 days ago
"Only 43% rated it as excellent" is such an underwhelming statistic. another 40% probably rated it as "above average" in that study.
Plus, us english are an unenthusuatic, cynical bunch of bastards. A doctor could cure my erectile dysfunction by snapping his fingers then give me a free jetpack and I'd still rate his service as "pathetically trying way too hard".
dwekdwekdwek 6 days ago
I never knew who this Daniel Hannan bloke was until I started watching these clips. The guy is not even a back-bencher he is a non-entity! Cameron has distanced himself from this guy so I'm afraid he's hardly an expert on anything!
lizziedavidson1987 6 days ago
@lizziedavidson1987 Cameron isn't even a conservative so your comment means nothing.
gshooting 2 days ago
@gshooting now I've heard everything...the leader of the conservative party isn't a conservative? Okay then, what is he?
lizziedavidson1987 2 days ago
@lizziedavidson1987 he's the leader of blue labour. He's perfectly fine with government intervention in the economy. I'll give him a pass on the NHS because otherwise there wouldn't be a Tory party in existence. He's perfectly fine with heavy subsidies in green energy, like solar, although thankfully some of the back-benchers are starting to call him out on it.
gshooting 2 days ago
@gshooting You are obviously a twat...
thongdongalong 2 days ago
@thongdongalong terrific comeback. I never doubted that your witty self could form a cogent argument. /sarc
gshooting 2 days ago
Even Stephen Hawking says that he would not be alive today without the NHS.
jazzx251 1 week ago
I know this is anecdotal, but anyway. I'm from the UK and I had private health insurance there. When I broke my arm and told them I was going private at the hospital, not only was I put at the front of the queue, they called the head orthopedic surgeon in from his home to come and do the procedure, so I'm not sure what Hannan is talking about with his "no private money" comment. Now I live in the US and I pay a lot more for private insurance and never seem to get the red carpet treatment.
sgoodacre 1 week ago
How can he say that the NHS is the UK's biggest budget item? According to the Budget of HM Treasury the income of the exchequer is £711Bn of which £120Bn will be spent on Healthcare. Oh that will be because he's only an EU minister.
Healthcare which is free at the point of use is the best thing about living in the UK.
Oh that and the BBC lol
How can one be informed with this news corporation, with their its political axe to grind? Such bias, while entertaining would not be allowed on the BBC.
elton1981 1 week ago
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yes it scares me going into an NHS hospital with the corridors full of jackbooted stormtroopers who shoot you if you dont comply with the strict rules of a hopeless failing healthcare system...NOT...
radicalsystems 1 week ago
yes it scares me going into an NHS hospital with the corridors full of jackbooted stormtroopers who shoot you if you dont comply with the strict rules of a hopeless failing healthcare system...NOT...
radicalsystems 1 week ago
spot the liar competition...oh look theres two of them..the words 'socialised medicine' was cooked up during the cold war to scare the pants off the americans..it was deliberate as they knew that fear is a strong tactic to get people to consume more and pay up for virtually anything...
radicalsystems 1 week ago
i hope the americans dont truly believe what this guy says, the NHS is one of the best things about living in the UK
lucus1985 1 week ago
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The NHS is the 7th largest employer, not the 3rd. The 3rd is Wallmart, a company that is known to treat it's employees like crap. While the NHS, which I many others have benefited and love dearly, is known to give a good standard of care.
xxksaoXX 1 week ago
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JackHillcox 1 week ago
the 5 year survival rate is not 100%, in fact it is not even close. the 5 year survival rate of rich white guys is 100%, but guess what the survival rate of people living in trailers or in the projects is, a big fat 0%. In the UK its 77% if you're a bin man or a buisnessman
mick220567 1 week ago
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GOOGLE 'Andrew Lansley Bankrolled by Private Healthcare'
janebusby 1 week ago
There's no problem with the NHS.
MrYorkshireFella 1 week ago
I'm not sure what Mr Hannen's argument is about waiting times. Of course you won't be waiting if can no longer afford health care.
youngian 1 week ago
I'll bet the bulk of those 41 who marked this up are Americans who know sod all about the NHS.
davijeph 1 week ago
Who that fuck is Daniel Hannan?
kaneyp 1 week ago
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@kaneyp a rich nasty twat
radicalsystems 1 week ago
This guy doesn't even get air time in britain because he is a complete twat. Half the things he has said is lies. I went for a shoulder operation and received physio off the NHS and topped it up with personally paid physio.
thongdongalong 1 week ago 23
@thongdongalong Um...no, he doesn't get air time because he actually believes in a free market and not socialist practices. The NHS is getting reformed soon anyway and will have more competition. Thinking it will survive for ever is wilful ignorance.
gshooting 2 days ago
@gshooting Why would he not get air time for believing that? That's what the Tories want, and corporations want. So if he wasn't a complete dumb ass then they would be throwing him in the spotlight.
thongdongalong 2 days ago
@thongdongalong lol, Tories are hardly free-market. They are just a slightly less socialist form of the Labour Party and who won't (and rightly) tolerate nonsense from Public sector unions. He is clearly not a dumbass, he went to Oxford FFS. Anyway, the times that he has come on Question Time, he's been well-received, surprisingly.
gshooting 2 days ago
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@gshooting So wait, nonsense from Unions, you mean let's not give the working class a voice? He went to oxford? :L YOU SIR are a complete moron, obviously believe all this everyone is middle class hype, which in turn has made you believe it is okay to support policies which will cripple the honest working man. YOU and your likes are what's wrong with this country! So I will not retract my previous comment suggesting you are a twat. Economic history or any other kind of history is not.
thongdongalong 1 day ago
@gshooting Also calling something a socialist practice to mock it is moronic and shows your level of arrogance on subjects. Also the reforms are opposed by the people who actually know a thing or two.
thongdongalong 2 days ago
@thongdongalong I'll continue to mock it and deride it as a socialist practice. Economic history is actually on my side of the argument. I don't know how you can quantify the country is against the reforms. It certainly ain't because of that former-union worker who was squawking like a hen at Andrew Lansley. If the reforms do get opposed, it's because we have a nation of mostly left-wing idiots.
gshooting 2 days ago
Bulshit, utter bullshit. I live in UK and use NHS, it is the only good thing about Britain.
nathfrancis01 1 week ago
The NHS offers a brilliant service. This is just propaganda.
rza1m 1 week ago
As if Daniel Hannan knows the NHS first hand. The fucking cunt.
ltsaint911 1 week ago
It's a pity some freak accident didn't take place during this interview...
asulei 1 week ago
Funny thing is. My girlfriend is American & everytime she comes here, she stocks up on medicine for her Diabetes which in the U.S costs $100 per bottle & here is for free. hmmm which one would you rather have, 3 hours waiting & free medicine or instant medicine and shit loads of money. The guy talks utter rubbish. The NHS is the greatest invention & the only thing Labour should be praised on
albanobob 1 week ago
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michaelkeeble1 1 week ago
The NHS is wonderful.
CommissarXIV 1 week ago
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Over 40 million United States citizens, who do not have health insurance, will die if they get critically ill and a substantial amount more if they get an illness not covered by their policies. There are third world countries who care more for its poor and vulnerable.
Enerjee 2 weeks ago
the NHS is the best system in the world, no matter what your complaint about it, remember that you are not charged and that if you want private health care you still can, with companies like bupa. so slag it off as much as you like but the nhs will treat you no matter who you are or how much money you have
seanhamson 2 weeks ago
Lies, lies and more fucking lies!!!!
sdawson556 2 weeks ago
Dumbass; would you wait 8 months for an eventual treatment or receive no treatment and die?
wangsta25 2 weeks ago
How does Daniel Hannan know the NHS first hand?
Bloodlovefreak 2 weeks ago
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marionetemanJ 2 weeks ago
a national health service is one of britains greatest assests! everyone is and should be entitled to free healthcare, its not perfect, nothing is but i would rather this than a system which is dominated by profiteering drug companies.
tomholt112233 2 weeks ago
Fox news rofl
Do they ever tell the truth?
Jamflip81 2 weeks ago
National sickness service is a fucking discrage Harold Shipman Stockport saline anyone?!! Costs us billions for shite "service"
ukipwarrior 2 weeks ago
Let's lynch anyone who disagrees with us! what a dogmatic, intolerant narrow-minded position to take.
MrGilles1990 2 weeks ago
Imagine the unfairness of not being able to buy your way to the front of a queue! An outrage no doubt.
No-one in the UK is forced or obliged to use the NHS. Private medical care is available for those who wish to pay for it.
ZelenoffFanClub 2 weeks ago
Glen Beck is a fucking gonk. Simple as that.
GonkNebraska 2 weeks ago
Bullshit, in all the studies I've seen the UK out ranks the US health system on everyone. The World Health Organisation ranked the UK's at 18 and the US's at 37 in 2000.
ryantika 2 weeks ago
bet hannan got paid a shit load to do this interview
spunkternal 2 weeks ago
Yeh it's supposed to be some kind of treason to insult the NHS over here in England.
666or999 2 weeks ago
If problems about America's "private" healthcare were brought we would be here for seven hours not seven minutes. IMO it's not private healthcare at all it's a business which is morally wrong peoples lives should not be a business
jackflash341 2 weeks ago
@jackflash341 America doesn't really have private healthcare.
666or999 2 weeks ago
@666or999 What is it then? Health Care in the US is largely owned and operated by the private sector that sounds like private healthcare to me.
jackflash341 2 weeks ago
@jackflash341 It's kinda complicated but it is supplied both privatly and publically and the private coverage has alot of intervention.
666or999 2 weeks ago
Total bullshit, scaremongering propaganda...I'm British and proud of the NHS, It may not be perfect but it's a damn sight better than the American model where I better not be ill unless I can afford it,.
robinbrum 2 weeks ago
Wow, Glen Beck really knows how to conduct a challenging interview! There's nothing like debating an issue with somebody who has the same opinion as you. I wonder if Daniel spat or swallowed in the green room for Glen after the show.
ChrisTheCat21 2 weeks ago
You pay National Insurance contributions to build up your entitlement to certain state benefits, including the State Pension. The contributions you pay depend on how much you earn and whether you're employed or self-employed. You stop paying National Insurance contributions when you reach State Pension age. NI is absolutely nothing to do with any other tax based expenditure.
davijeph 2 weeks ago
What a prick. If u dont like the nhs or uk stay in the US. Hes full of shit
MsRosy45 3 weeks ago
Normally, I wouldn't advocate vigilante justice.
But in Hannan's case, I think we could make an exception - for the sake of national pride.
Anyone for a lynch mob?
BasilFawlty4444 3 weeks ago 21
@BasilFawlty4444 Problem is , that without a chin he will just slide out of the noose.
bakersteven3 3 weeks ago
@BasilFawlty4444 lol you advocate a lynch mob for someone daring to challenge the sytem? You act like the nhs is perfect and people don't die needlessly due to monumental fuck ups within the nhs and the fact that our cancer survival rates are some of the lowest in the western world.
sh4p3shifter 3 weeks ago
@sh4p3shifter He's not only challenging the system, he's telling blatant lies.
He may think what he wants about the NHS, but to lie to the extent it makes our country look bad is unacceptable.
UK cancer survival rates drastically improved under the last Labour government; just read the articles on the Cancer Research site. So there are isolated problems within the NHS, not a reflection upon the system.
It's not uncommon in America to be refused treatment if you have no insurance.
BasilFawlty4444 3 weeks ago
@BasilFawlty4444 I concur...but let's do it with style...let's call the SAS.
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arcanus121 2 weeks ago
@arcanus121 Where have you been living?
My grandparents love the NHS. They would have been bankrupt three times over without it.
BasilFawlty4444 2 weeks ago
@arcanus121 Given that Hannan is the son of multi-Millionaire Anglo Irish Peruvian cotton farmers given the best private education that money can buy, lives in Spain, never used the NHS in his life (unlike David Cameron) he would be just the kind of far right no nothing nincompoop a buffoon like Beck would "interview"? about the NHS. I'm a pensioner and like almost all senior citizens in the UK have very little in the way of complaint against the NHS.
davijeph 2 weeks ago 7
@davijeph Fantastic comment! :)
INSANITYeliot 4 days ago
@davijeph That's because you're the generation that made this nation a socialist state.
gshooting 2 days ago
@gshooting Never voted socialist in my life, dislike unions especially those controlled by the far left, The Tories might or might not be reforming the NHS but they are keeping to its core principle of being "free at the point of need". Unlike Friedman and his Frankenstein sister Rand the Tories are canny enough to understand the need to keep a social framework within a capitalist economy. Mrs Thatcher " The NHS is safe in our hands" Now piss off your to stupid to talk to.
davijeph 2 days ago
@davijeph "Free at the point of need?" What a nonsensical phrase. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Your generation overgrew the social framework and Britain needs to be brought back to fiscal sanity. You think Friedman was some kind of anarchist with no regard for the poor? You're an ignoramus who's probably never read or listen to anything about him. How about form a cogent argument without talking through your rear end?
gshooting 2 days ago
@gshooting "Free at the point of need?" Is in NHS terms says precisely what you get on the tin we know its not free you stupid twat. I don't think Friedman was an anarchist I think he was an arrogant smirking bastard consumed by the false believe in his own brilliance and supposed superiority a bit like Hitler and with mindless idiots like you to support his twisted values potentially just as dangerous. Now fuck off its past your bed time.
davijeph 2 days ago
@davijeph Your comparing Milton Friedman with Hitler? You've now disqualified yourself from the debate for revealing yourself to be a raving idiot. You need some Thorazine and a straight jacket, you utter fool.
gshooting 2 days ago
@BasilFawlty4444 The entire government is full of horrible little Quisling bastards such as Hannan. Men who would slag of the country that has given them everything. The NHS saved me from bleeding to death from a stanley knife attack, they give my mother medication for her thyroid disorder and they repaired my fathers back to go to work. Fuck this pair of bumboys. Beck is a hysterical little jew cunt and Hannan is a fucking traitor who needs to learn about loyalty.
grimblebrumble17889 1 week ago
OMG!!! The UK national Health Service is an absolute national treasure. Who the feck is this Bald guy, he's a bare faced liar!!!!! The stats they showed are not correct!! How can this be allowed!! Lies and scaremongering. Don't believe a word he says people.
Fucking SCUM!!
pablohanc 3 weeks ago
We kicked you out of the UK, Hannan. You dirty, ignorant, stuck-up, arse-kissing toff.
Lukege15 3 weeks ago
PAIR OF CUNTS!
Ninja1275 3 weeks ago
All I know is that when I made an appointment to see a doctor just for a general check up in a universal health care system I got to see them the next day, I made an appointment to see a doctor in the US I had to wait almost 6 months
theoneilovemost 3 weeks ago
@drage1862 I would also like a rebate for the NHS which now has to pay to remove thousands of PIP breast implants which it didnt perform because the private companies that made the operations are too cheap to fix what they should be legally required to fix.
angel102ify 3 weeks ago
@angel102ify As for your comment on the breast implants, I couldn't agree with you more, the private companies should pay to correct their mistakes, the burden shouldn't fall on the tax payer but on the other side of the coin not everybody that contracted MRSA or C diff received compensation from the NHS for pain & suffering, Only famous people like Lesley Ash get sums of £5,000,000 compensation for a hospital aquired infection, we just have to live with it.
drage1862 3 weeks ago
@angel102ify The company no longer exists.......
mathew2283 3 weeks ago
@mathew2283 The company that makes the implants dosnt, but the companies who carried out the surgeries do
angel102ify 3 weeks ago
My mum's waiting time for a cataract operation on the NHS: 1 DAY - that was under Labour though!
E17er 3 weeks ago
what a cunt
mick220567 3 weeks ago
The NHS is not perfect but anytime my wife or I have used it we have been treated quickly, professionally and with respect. Including when my wife gave birth, my daughter stopped breathing and the response was excellent, the staff are a credit to the NHS.
If you don't like it go to BUPA and pay for it.
I find it the ultimate irony that a member of the European Parlaiment is complaining about the NHS for too much red tape. lol
frasermo 3 weeks ago
@frasermo I don't like it, but I can't go to BUPA. The reason for this is that the money I would otherwise use has already been stolen from me and applied to the NHS juggernaught. Where there is nationalisation there is no choice. Without choice there is no freedom.
MrRealstreet 3 weeks ago
@MrRealstreet Don't give me that crap, NI costs you less than %10 of your wage. You would spend more on petrol getting to work.
mathew2283 3 weeks ago
@mathew2283 how about all the other taxes? like on your wage, your house, your car etc? where does that go? pissed up the wall is where it goes. Wouldn't you rather keep what you earn and be responisble for your self instead of relying on the government to take care of you from cradle to grave? why should I have to fork out for some idiot who's drunk too much and needs to get his stomach pumped or for some foreigner who hasn't paid a penny into the system?
sh4p3shifter 3 weeks ago
@sh4p3shifter And if you get attacked and stabbed? DO you not want the police to respond and the NHS to treat you? If you get trapped in a burning building or car, do you not want the fire brigade to release you. Do you not want a state pension to fall back on? This is what NI does.
You know that health care is one of the main reasons for bankruptcy in the US?
mathew2283 3 weeks ago
@mathew2283 national insurance is just income tax with a fancy name, it makes no difference. we get taxed in many ways, and that is more than enough for police and fire etc. pension funds are bankrupt, NI doesn't go towards those things you mentioned, they go towards military entanglements, interest on debt, the EU, bureacracy etc. the public workforce don't pay anything into NI. You ignore the fact that there is no money left. The american system is a corporate cronyist run system. bad example.
sh4p3shifter 3 weeks ago
@sh4p3shifter NI does not pay for foreign wars, stop being so bloody stupid.
mathew2283 2 weeks ago
@mathew2283 Actually, no it doesn't, and no I don't. What I said stands,
MrRealstreet 2 weeks ago
The guy got his ass handed to him when David Cameron heard of this. I believe he was sodomized the day he got back to England, or as the press commented, he was "reprimanded"! That's ex Eton boys for ya! Totally gangsta!
7589g8e4444he4 3 weeks ago 9
Daniel Hannan, you are a cretinous worm.
jimbobjimminy 3 weeks ago 2
yes we wait longer but thats because more people great treatment.if you take millions of people out of healthcare as they do in america your bound to get treatment quicker. in america if you have the money you get great healthcare but if you dont your screwed. in britain everyone no matter what their wealth is gets a decent standard of healthcare.
leeb19yido 3 weeks ago 2
Im sorry but in order for fox news to analyse british healthcare properly they need someone who is not a member of a political party and therefore doesn't have a bias. i.e a doctor. daniel hannan is from the conservative party who believe in privatisation of our system.
leeb19yido 3 weeks ago
I am proud to live in a country where everyone has health care.
wanderingbillyboy 3 weeks ago
NHS made in my hometown. Developed on the idea of miners pooling money together to fund for eachothers health care, if they couldn't afford it. I have been very well looked after by it and so my family. This video fails to acknowledge the countless poor americans who have died from the lack of healthcare. Its funny how many countries have taken up the succesful NHS and how america hasn't. but there always right.
Bhhsboy1 4 weeks ago
@Bhhsboy1 Yes they are.
Thats why they spend twice as much as we do on healthcare, but leave around 15% of their population without healthcare........
mathew2283 3 weeks ago
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daniel hannan = grade A moronic brown nose cunt? Crude, but true.
davijeph 4 weeks ago
daniel hannan = grade A moronic brown nose cunt
GrimeAndGats 4 weeks ago
Daniel Hannan = right wing scum who was publicly reviled by his own political party on this issue. He is not representitive of Great Britain.
P.S. Thank you NHS for giving my mum free hip replacement and rehabilitation treatment and myself for when I broke my arm being stupid and falling out of a tree. :)
freekicking85 1 month ago
Hannan loves sugar coated balls floating on a rainbow of multi coloured penises.
dubyamoney 1 month ago
I'm British and I don't know that idiot that's being interviewed.
The NHS is 1 million times better than the American health system.
We might pay through our taxes but we won't end up with a bill for $50,000
MrVillamike 1 month ago
I want to put Glenn Beck in a state where he needs the NHS. The utter mug.
And the fucking toff too.
SaintJimmy2000 1 month ago
shame he didnt break his neck
tirconnel90 1 month ago
Daniel Hannan is an absolute fucking disgrace to his nation.
He should have his passport revoked.
N330AA 1 month ago
@drage1862 wow! one thing ive always promoted is class harmony having a working class dad and middle class mum, by reducing tax for those who can afford private healthcare how does that reduce burden for the NHS? It isnt about beating down the successful its about contributuion to society its about promoting every persons humanright to free healthcare Yes there is and always will be wastage in the NHS but lets not asume everyone who uses the NHS are 'lazy' & 'Feckless' that shows class snobbery
thenorthstates 1 month ago
@thenorthstates I didn't say EVERYONE who uses the NHS were lazy feckless bastards but many who use it are lazy scroungers with a sense of entitlement who think it's the duty of others to pay for their treatment, I don't have private health care, so I use the NHS & believe it or not I believe in the concept of the NHS but it's abused & things have to change, not all the people who pay for private health care are super rich, why do you think they should pay twice ?
drage1862 1 month ago
Daniel Hannan is a bell end
MrSmileyDom 1 month ago
@drage1862 You can easily enough decline employee healthcare from your company and remain purely with the NHS and not affecting your normal tax outcome, for those rich enough to pay for private healthcare how can there be any sympathy when their income is great enough to pay for it, surely those people shouldn't feel to hard done by, by making the same contribution as everyone else to their community? If the NHS didn't exist we'd be taxed just as much though the money would go on something else
thenorthstates 1 month ago
@thenorthstates I detect class envy in your last comment, I think people who pay for private health care should get a reduction in their national insurance contributions, they are already helping the community by reducing the burden on the NHS. I don't see why people who become a success should pay for NHS treatment for all the lazy feckless bastards who think it's someone elses responsibility to look after them. Not to mention health tourists who free load at our expense !
drage1862 1 month ago
The thing these people do not understand is the NHS is NOT compulsary, you can choose to pay for private healthcare if you can afford it. The NHS is for the average person who can't afford £3,000 for a knee operation.
Without the NHS I would of lost my Uncle, Grandad, Dad and my Grandma wouldn't have had such a long and healthy life. You tell me the NHS doesn't work.
thenorthstates 1 month ago
@thenorthstates It isn't compulsory that you use the NHS but if you are tax payer it is compulsory to pay for it whether you use it or not, the government don't give people a rebate in their national insurance contributions if they decide to pay for private health care as well & if you are lucky enough to receive private health care as part of an employment package your tax code will reflect that as a benefit & you'll pay more tax, How fair is that ?
drage1862 1 month ago
@drage1862 ITs as fair as you not getting a rebate from the police if your house doesnt get burgled that month.
In Britain you are free to have private healthcare, but if you get hit by a truck in your car, its not BUPA ambulances that come and scrape you off the road is it? Its not Westfield nurses and doctors who pump your chest to keep you alive, is it?
angel102ify 3 weeks ago
@angel102ify The police is an entirely different case because they are the sole provider of law enforcement. I didn't say that people shouldn't contribute to the NHS because as you rightly say, it is the NHS that provide emergency treatment & an ambulance service. I still say people who pay for private medical health care should get a reduction in their contributions for freeing up NHS beds when they use private facilities for operations.
drage1862 3 weeks ago
1) I wonder how his salary compares to the average Brit (and even American)
2) NHS staff in general are polite and efficient
3) You have to check medical records first before you casual hand out drugs to people and his friend cannot bribe NHS staff into giving them to him quicker
thenorthstates 1 month ago
Etheoma 1 month ago
In the U.S., C. diff has caused as many as 3 million cases of diarrhea and colitis per year. In 1989 it was reported that 7& of patients admitted to a hospital and 28% of patients who were hospitalized had positive cultures for the organism. In the 1990’s it rose to 3-40/1000,000 and by 2005 it was 84/100,00. So much for that one.
davijeph 1 month ago
For Americans - nobody in the UK knows who this guy is, and about 1% agree with him. Grow up, Fox News.
06arobertson 1 month ago
BIG FAN SIR, wat.
LeisureInLife 1 month ago