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Looks like it could soon be 'RIP the NHS'?

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whitewave Fri 26-Aug-16 13:52:50

£10 extra would be enormous amount overall and our health service would be superb!

whitewave Fri 26-Aug-16 13:51:41

Personally i'd be happy to pay as much as £10 extra for national insurance and get a good NHS service.

whitewave Fri 26-Aug-16 13:49:46

Can we as individuals afford health insurance!? What about pre-existing conditions? How are we to afford to get stuff done that the NHS can no longer afford?

Saga quoted me £300+ a month that's without cover of pre existing conditions

obieone Fri 26-Aug-16 13:43:31

What is Theresa May's stance on this?
What are other parties's stance.

No party is prepared to fix it?
Are the debts too large?

Sorry, no one has to answer. I have only questions, no answers of a human nature.

Anniebach Fri 26-Aug-16 13:27:29

Nothing can be done to stop them , we can riot in the streets they will still go ahead

whitewave Fri 26-Aug-16 13:16:17

sadangry this government has killed the NHS. A slow and deliberate plan

durhamjen Fri 26-Aug-16 12:44:12

This is what it's all about.

www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/john-lister/is-new-collaboration-in-nhs-merely-way-to-make-cuts

durhamjen Fri 26-Aug-16 12:41:42

Being saying this for years, Alie, but it's called scaremongering.
On the news this morning they said that 44 areas will be doing it, and someone said it doesn't save money as patients just go along to the next hospital.
What that person did not realise is that there are only going to be 44 areas. They all have had to put in their plans for saving, which include closing wards, and GPs reducing what they cover.

It's depressing that it came out when it did, but that was ib the plan as well. Do it all while MPs are on holiday and bothered about leadership contests, and it'll be a fait accompli when parliament is back to normal.

Next month there are junior doctors taking Hunt to court over their contract. Haven't seen much of that in the news either.

In the meantime, loads of people on gransnet say that the NHS was okay for me and my family when we last used it. So that makes it okay.

AlieOxon Fri 26-Aug-16 12:27:43

Big cuts in prospect in the news and no consultation until the autumn....