The Money/Mouth Interface
The most effective way for ordinary citizens to ensure NHS reform will be successful is to make certain that those who are responsible for creating the public health system voluntarily agree to exclusively use the same system, without opt-out, in their own medical treatment.
OurPetition believes the people of the United Kingdom are entitled to a world-class health system. To achieve this we ask policy-makers to lead by example.
Write to your MP asking them to sign, sign it yourself and spread the word.
Posted on May 30th, 2006 at 6:06pm under Activism, UK politics
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Love to but I want to live. So until it is fixed I’m going to pay the fee twice. The private insurance actually works out cheaper but of course does not have the A&E component.
And that is the whole issue, isn’t it.
I cannot sign this petition, not because I do not believe in the ideal of the NHS, but because at present it is not safe enough for me to promise to consign my family to it.
I wish it were.
Perhaps we need another list of names of people who would like to committ but dare not.
I await with fascination the list of labour MPs who will not sign. But will they be honest enough to say why? It is hilarious to look at those who just do not reply. The silence is deafening.
This has to be one of the most telling political petitions ever.
John
I’ve emailed my MP (Labour’s Celia Barlow) asking her to sign. I’ll report back if she replies. A few weeks ago I wrote to her asking her to sign the Early Day Motion about sanitary products for Zimbabwean women. She replied the very next day. It’ll be interesting to see if the NHS is as far up her list of priorities.
This is all bollocks. St Barbara of Castle showed back in the 50s that if you are a VIP you can use the NHS but on completely different terms from the rest of us.
Sorry, no can do! The best way to help the health service is to sell it off for whatever its constituent parts will fetch and then provide everyone on the basic rate of tax (or below) with a voucher. A handsome tax CUT should follow immediately. Not the least of the advantages will be that we shall be able to see exactly and precisely what medical services cost, a figure entirely unknown since c.1950.
The problem here is you affluent wankers. People like you are jumping the queue. There are more of us than you and we subsidise your lives and lifestyles and you want us to pay for more of it. Until we get rid of the democratic deficiency in healthcare AND EDUCATION our schools and hospitals will always be second rate. If you had to send your kids to the school I work in you would use all your considerable skills/powers and influence to change the situation. Far easier just to buy your way out of it. SMUG bastards the lot of you
Porkbeast
Snort!