I also have family that live in Europe and every single one of them and thier friends COME HERE for treatment. Now I am not talking about going for a physical.
To all our cousins across the pond would any of you care to enlighten us as to the economic impact that your current health care system has had on your country considering that it is roughly 40% of the GDP?
Damian,
Despite the cost, I think you will find the majority of people in the UK, including our current conservative prime minister David Cameron, have total support for the NHS.
From the Independent
When will the NHS be given the praise it is due?
Results of the annual Care Quality Commission Survey, which looked at responses from 72,000 patients who had spent one or more nights in an NHS hospital in 2008, were reported in your article "A diagnosis of the NHS – by its patients" on 14 May.
The article, tucked away in the middle of your paper, highlights problems that "persist", but right at the end contains the incredible figure that 93 per cent of patients admitted to an NHS hospital rate their overall care as good, very good or excellent. How close to 100 per cent does this figure have to be to make the front page?
David cameron invoked the memory of his late son, Ivan, today as he defended the Tories' commitment to the NHS.
Bruised by the transatlantic row over the health service, in which a Tory MEP dismissed the NHS as a "60-year mistake", Cameron described it as a "fantastic and precious fact of British life".
During a speech in Bolton, Cameron made clear that the NHS had transformed his family's life after Ivan was born in April 2002 with cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
Cameron said: "The moment you're injured or fall ill, the moment something happens to someone you love, you know that whoever you are, wherever you're from, whatever's wrong, however much you've got in the bank, there's a place you can go where people will look after you and do their best to make things right again." The Tory leader did not mention Ivan, who died in February aged six. But Tory sources said he had Ivan in mind when he spoke of "someone you love".
Cameron has spoken of how his experience of the NHS had a significant impact on him. In the first few weeks after Ivan's birth, the Camerons took it in turns to sleep beside their son in hospital.
Cameron used his speech to face down the Tory right by saying their demands to cut NHS spending would be a "step backwards". If the Tories win the next election they will increase NHS spending in line with inflation from 2011-14.
"The moment you're injured or fall ill, the moment something happens to someone you love, you know that whoever you are, wherever you're from, whatever's wrong, however much you've got in the bank, there's a place you can go where people will look after you and do their best to make things right again."