Manchester, England. 3rd May 2005. Joan Hibberd, chair of Trafford Pensioners, speaks about life before the state run National Health Service (NHS) came into being in 1948. She is speaking at a meeting of the anti-war party Respect in Stretford Civic Hall during the 2005 General election campaign.
The NHS is funded out of general taxation and no one is refused treatment because they are poor--except for failed asylum seekers who are refused secondary health care and currently the racist Brown government is now extending this outrageous policy to primary health also--family doctors.
Watch Michael Moore's film "SicKo" which contrast the UK National Health Service with the US system.
Alongside the state run NHS there is a growing private health sector for the wealthy. Over the past few decades, Thatcher, Blair and Brown have been attempting to run down the NHS by starving it of resources in order to discredit the idea of state-funded public services. And they have simultaneously opened the NHS up to the bloodsucking buzzards from the private health care corporations. Much of the money that goes into the NHS ends up in the bulging pockets of the bankers though scams like the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Much of it is also syphoned off via high charges for medicines imposed by the drug corporations.
The Conservatives and New Labour both want to turn the clock back to the pre-1948 system--the system that still exists today in the US. The NHS staff are fighting this all the way.
Health care not warfare!
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Channel: News & Politics Uploaded: January 10, 2008 at 10:09 am Author:ChrisEdwards2004
Hi, i absolutely agree with the lady in the video. Are we going to just sit back and let our healthcare (an other systems) be run by profit-orientated companies?
Is there any way i can contact her/her group or an anti NHS privatisation group? I am making a documentary (in Manchester) about the privatisation of GP surgeries happening under our noses due to typical labour party spin. I'd like to get in touch with an anti-privatisation group.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Yes, you can contact nurse Karen Reissmann in Manchester who was sacked for defending the NHS. She has contact with at least one GP in Manchester.
Contact her through her web-site:
w w w . reinstate-karen . org (remove spaces)
