Farage is getting frightening now

None have been revealed to the public yet, have they?

Are there any manifestos out yet, JessM? I read yesterday that Cameron is trying to improve the manifesto before it is published. I was surprised because I thought it would have been out by now, so I checked and it hasn't been published yet.
I have also read that a lot of Italians are going back home, having spent up to 15 years here. They do not like the cost of living, the binge drinking and the weather. They also say it's difficult to find jobs.

It's not exactly a level playing field though, is it whitewave, since levels of poverty, benefits, employment, cost of living etc. differ between E U countries.

Or is that just another example of muddled thinking?

Ashtree you really cannot compare the treatment your friend is receiving in Spain with the treatment her niece is receiving in the UK.
What is right for one patient isn't necessarily right for another, and more treatment isn't necessarily better treatment.

Private medicine does often result in more and more treatment- to the point of over-treatment, and can actually be dangerous. Giving antibiotics for any cough or sore throat is just not safe, x-raying, radiotherapy and double the chemo can be really dangerous.

When I was studying European health care systems in the 1990s - I specialised in Sweden and Germany, there was a phrase in one of the books on the German system quoting a German doctor ' healthy is the German who has not been tested enough' - it still makes me smile

There is grat concern about over diagnosis, and over treatment in many countries with private health system where businesses are in competition with one another.

Some countries for instance, have massive rates of ceasarian sections- which are totally un-necessary and even dangerous.

In Brazil, the rate of ceasarians is 82% in private hospitals, whilst the rest is vastly under-funded.