Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain - Episode 1 (Pt 5) - The NHS

Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Episode 1 - 'Advance Britannia' (Pt 5)
1945 - 1955

- 840 Royal Navy ships decommissioned
- Nye Bevan
- Ernest Bevin
- The Marshall Plan
- The NHS (National Health Service)
- Park Hospital, Manchester
- National healthcare
- Korean War
- Festival of Britain

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[HellwrathUK]

NHS part starts at 03:08.

[thegreatloy]

Every American aginst Obama's healthcare reforms should be forced to watch this.

[deansnotapimp1]

6.00-- unbeleivable timing by that nurse!!!

[OBAG09L]

The problem with the NHS is that it only really benefits those that aren't paying for it. For those that are paying for it all they get is a shoddy service; waiting weeks for doctors appointments, months for operations, £7 per item of a prescription, hundreds of pounds for false teeth and spectacles. And after paying for this their whole life's they eventually die in hospital through dehydration! The NHS as an idea is great but something needs to be done to raise standards.

[WheresMyAle1990]

@venomousspiderwookie I guess that's the difference between the Americans and the British. You'd rather spend money on mutilating and killing your young and poor men in wars in other countries, while we prefer to take care of our people.

[BasilFawlty4444]

@kingofmilwaukee6969 If the US is going down (which is unlikely), it's going exactly the same way as Britain went. Just as we were in debt to the US until 2001, the US will be in debt to China for decades.

Either way, all empires, all superpowers collapse eventually. I just wouldn't worry yourself about it. Que sera sera and all that...

[BasilFawlty4444]

@venomousspiderwookie You're missing the point. The US spends nearly 5% of GDP on military. The UK spends less than 2%. Yet the NHS costs 9-10% of the UK GDP. So it's about priorities - guns vs butter.

The UK remains a world power with decent power projection capabilities, despite low military spending. It's small but effective.

Either way, you pay the same taxes. Currently, 40 million Americans go without healthcare, yet the military-industrial complex remains established! It's plutocracy!

[venomousspiderwookie]

@BasilFawlty4444 Then ask for help from your family, friends, and neighbours while saving up your own money.

When I pay tax money for the military, I'm paying for a traditional purview of government that can only be done and paid for by government. When I'm paying for someone else's health care-someone I don't even know!-I'm paying for something that can be dealt with and paid for by smaller institutes and individuals without the force of the state.

Tax brackets are inherently unfair anyway.

[BasilFawlty4444]

@venomousspiderwookie

That's vicious. What about the poorer families? Those crippled by medical bills?

And what's this about paying for someone else's healthcare? You fund the military-industrial complex; supercarriers, 5th gen fighters etc... why not healthcare? It's guns vs butter!

Look at the tax brakets. Average earners in the UK pay almost exactly the same as American ones. It's only the higher earners (over £150,000, or ~$250-280,000) that are hammered 50% - rightly so, if you ask me.

[venomousspiderwookie]

@BasilFawlty4444

Why should I be forced, through the force of the state, to help pay for your healthcare? You should do for self, pal.

Thatcher should have gone after the NHS.

[kingofmilwaukee6969]

For those who think this is proof of something we should emulate... ask the average person there how much they like it now. Who cares how people felt about it in 1948?? And lets not forget that all of this was essentially paid for my the Marshall Plan. The USA payed for it. Who will be our sugar daddy?

[BasilFawlty4444]

@attie3 The NHS is absolutely amazing! America would really benefit from one...

Our doctors are still world class, the only thing that's a problem is the hospital food, the bad decorating and in a few cases the hospital buildings from the 50s. Nothing life threatening, though - treatment is still great! Just what comes with providing free healthcare to millions of people.

If you lived here, you'd understand. I have an American friend that lives over here who used to be against it - not any more!

[KungfuCow5]

@ToaJoe BURN THE NAZIS WITH FIRE!