Daniel Hannan - Universal Health Care in the UK

European Parliament Member Daniel Hannan discusses the UK's health system with Glenn Beck. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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[TheRedflagflyer]

Fuck you Hannan, we love our NHS, it has saved my life.

[HuxleyWasRight]

the NHS is good at distributing health care, you will get the care (eventually) but it's not good at distributing GOOD health care, for the large part it's sub-standard.

Lets call it what it is, a rationing of health care, the NHS has a budget and will make calls on priorities, which means they will let old people die rather than treat them.

Under a free market health care system having more patients would be beneficial, under a NHS it's a burden.

[MsZeitgeist85]

Anything Hannan says about health care is a crock of shit and that cancer survival rate is not even a valid argument when you are comparing a handfull that get tretment in the US with the whole population of a country.

[julebuggy]

@dannydannyl Money dictates the standard no matter whether it's nationalized or not.

[dannydannyl]

5.25 his real opinion slips out. in fact it is privatised healthcare that leaves the poor to die. money should never dictate the standard of healthcare you receive. fuck you daniel hannan

[redwarrj1]

@toeblarone My tax and national insurance cover my health care (as well as his!!). Private health care is also paid for via insurance schemes, so he also pays for other people using private medicine...

[davijeph]

@toeblarone He does not "have" to pay for private insurance he chooses to. He also, if he chooses, gets all the services and care opportunities that any UK citizen can avail themselves from the NHS. It is interesting the while Hannan tries to do a hatchet job on the NHS during the interview with Beck about his "friend" who no doubt like Hannan also had expensive private health insurance his friend uses the "free"emergency services of the NHS not his insurance.

[toeblarone]

@redwarrj1 But still pays his tax for your health care, as well as having to pay his private.

[redwarrj1]

bollox. He's a tory, so probably doesn't use the NHS anyway

[theporksicle]

@mlukhman

I'm saying you should be able to opt out of the NHS and not pay for it. A foolish risk to take perhaps, but still one you ought to be able to take.