John Reid, the former Health Secretary, condemned Conservative manifesto proposals for the NHS to pay 50% of the treatment if a patient chose to be treated independently. The proposal would divert £1.2bn from the NHS without doing anything to increase the number of doctors and nurses in the NHS.
Today, Patricia Hewitt, the new Health Secretary is to commit £3bn for private sector treatment over five years. Doctors fear that this policy will risk the closure of NHS hospitals!!
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Don't draw that matter to the attention of Pootergeek: the poor boy is throwing a hissy fit at the moment. It would seem that I said something disobliging about the Labour Party.
Yep, Labour have been extremely hypocritical about this. They clearly don't believe in a centralized NHS, and would prefer to do pretty much what the Tories want to do to it (except in a much more inefficient way).
They just don't want to say so, for fear of alienating their core vote.
Scott, I think Labour are starting to head in the right direction by creating this internal market, it's just a shame they didn't introduce these reforms before showering the NHS with taxpayers money.
Ironically, the Conservative plan would have increased funding by the public paying for 50% of the operations whilst under the Labour plan, the patient gets the same treatment for free!!
Oops, where are my manners? That last comment was from Poosh.
GF thinks this is another breathtaking example of the utter disdain that the government has for the nation.
When the Conservative Party suugests something less radical... they are villified as dismantling the NHS.
But as soon as Nu-Labour do something, it is the right way forward.
GF wishes, for once, we had a modicum of honesty in our current governament. As it is they just sink lower and lower in the evolutionary scale.
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