I DESPERATELY wonder what this country has in store for itself when senior Tory MPs describe the NHS as "the national sickness service" and that it is "no longer relevant in the 21st century."
The revelations follow a furious row over a leading Tory's recent appearance on US television, in which he told Fox News that the NHS was a "60 year-old mistake" and urged Americans not to adopt a similar system if they wanted efficient, effective healthcare. – A bizarre thing to say when nearly 45 million Americans have no healthcare to cover them in their day-to-day lives.
Interestingly Barack Obama's stepmother has joined in the debate, saying that she owed her life to the NHS. Kezia Obama, 66, who now lives in Berkshire, suffered chronic kidney failure on a visit to the UK seven years ago.
Mrs Obama told a Sunday newspaper! "I was very down at the time but luckily I was here in Britain, in what was then a foreign country to me, where the doctors, nurses and surgeons cared for me like I was their own child. It's very simple. I owe my life to the NHS. If it wasn't for the NHS I wouldn't have been alive to see our family's greatest moment – when Barack became president and was sworn into the White House."
Please will the Tories stop denigrating our NHS and work for the people in the constituencies they are meant to serve and not waste their time and ours lambasting the United Kingdom and its public services to anyone who will listen. – Community Cllr Tom Kirton, Thornwell, Chepstow