Socialism and healthcare!!!

Hello all, recently the news in Britain (where I am from) has been talking about 'socialised' healthcare as the American's call it. I have also seen some of the American media telling horror stories about a National healthcare system. They also had a Conservative MEP on American news condemning British healthcare.

I would like to explain a few things to our American friends, the Conservative Party are no friend of the NHS (National Health Service) and since the Thatcher days they have tried to dismantle a great institution. Opponents to the NHS have said it is full of bureaucrats, well those bureaucrats were put in place by Thatcher to undermine the health system and slowly erode it away in order for Britain to adopt an American system, no doubt. Then a Conservative MEP has the audacity to claim this is a problem, a problem his party created! Hospitals should be run by the Doctors and Nurses, but government doesn't trust them with the money.

I have been in and out of hospital a few times now and I have had nothing but good service. Yes sometime people have to wait, but this is largely down to priorities, if someone has a heart problem they will be seen before someone with a broken toe, this makes sense. I got seen straight away with my heart problem! The other problem is many people go to hospitals with minor ailments which are in no way emergencies. Thirdly hospitals are full of the elderly who have no where else to go, this is not because of the NHS but because of a CONSERVATIVE government under Thatcher closing down care homes for the elderly, and then a (non Socialist) Labour government closing homes down even further. Some of the horror stories being told are exaggerated, very rare or just plain lies. I have never come across any of the stories been told.

I have also noticed the American media seems to be very much against Obama's healthcare bill, you have to ask why? Is it to do with insurance companies who make millions out of people's misery perhaps? It horrifies me to think that there are some in this country who want to adopt such a system, people are raped everyday by insurance companies for car insurance, home insurance, life insurance etc! The insurance company decides who gets what, well I tell you now NO THANK YOU!!! You can stick that where the sun don't shine!!

I also hear many American's arguments against it, well surely it is part of social responsibility to help those in need and to make sure health care is ethical, not about money and that everybody has access to a doctor. Being a doctor is a vocation, not just about a pay packet. I also hear many American's claim that theirs is a country of God!! Umm well surely if God or Jesus were into politics I'm almost certain they'd be socialist!! We also have to hear this brainwashed drivel about the evils of socialism, well I'm a socialist, I'm not into dictatorship, I'm not a communist and I'm not a National Socialist either!! I'm a Christian and I share in those values, and for me Socialism is the most compatible political system. Socialism is versatile, it isn't static it is always moving and there are many different views within it. We have an NHS but people can go private if they want to, they still have a choice. I'm certain if America adopted a similar sytem it would be totally watered down anyway and citizens would still have a choice in what treatment they want to receive, we do!!

One final point, I can't believe this crap about 'why should my tax payers money go on that?, or why should I have to pay to help someone else in need?', unbelievable and then some who say this call themselves Christians, its shameful, it really is!! I say this, I would rather tax money went back into a society who needs it and save lives rather than wars and conquest!!