The British Government Is Determined To Destroy The NHS
Every step that the Conservative government has taken in the last ten years has helped bring the demise of the world famous health service, a lot closer.
In Britain, we have it so lucky. Unlike in the United States where health Insurance is usually tied to employment and millions are an illness away from financial ruin and destitution, the National Health Service provides a cradle to grave service to all British citizens.
More than any other time in its 73 year history, it has faced unprecedented crises, not only with the massive cuts to public services, but also with swathes of privatization and not forgetting the concerted pressure on nurses and doctors wrought by the first and second waves of the Covid pandemic.
The pandemic did bring home to the British people in the most powerful way imaginable, the extraordinary damage to the health system from years of austerity, the sordid conditions under which doctors and nurses function and our government’s narcoleptic approach to a national emergency.
While the NHS has been unraveling right before our very eyes, the conservative government has found better use for the British tax payers money, such as the following:
- Matt Hancock, the erstwhile Health secretary, elected to award a £37 billion contract to…