With a POD of 1945. Of course, the GOP/ Tories must survive the voters' judgment.
With a POD of 1945. Of course, the GOP/ Tories must survive the voters' judgment.
Britons have been getting fatter and fatter.Some kind of POD affects Britons' diets. Britons start getting progressively fatter and unhealthier (like Americans) and NHS becomes a MAJOR burden on the British government.
(Apparently that's one of the big reasons health-care costs in the US are so high.)
They privatize it in order to try to get it to run more efficiently and the privatized NHS gives everyone above a certain weight a year to adopt a healthier lifestyle with demonstrable results or be kicked off.
Britons have been getting fatter and fatter.
The only way to do it in Britain is to have a very right-wing Tory Government, which knows it has no chance of re-election and wants to go down bringing down the NHS for ideological reasons. Once it is gone, I doubt attempts would be made to revive it, sadly.
Even then, the timeframe would be against them.
They are, but our fast food osmosis is slowly clogging their arteries and dulling their minds. It's all part of the rice-eating yellow conspiracy, my friends.They have?
I know French people are legendary for not being fat, but I thought Europeans in general were healthier than Americans.
The only way to do it in Britain is to have a very right-wing Tory Government,
The classic British diet couldn't be considered healthy by any stretch of the imagination. This is the sort of desperate excuse that anti-UHC activists use when they've run out of arguments. It's one step above Ann Coulter's claim that Americans have higher mortality rates not because of their substandard health care system, but because they keep killing each other with guns.Some kind of POD affects Britons' diets. Britons start getting progressively fatter and unhealthier (like Americans) and NHS becomes a MAJOR burden on the British government.
(Apparently that's one of the big reasons health-care costs in the US are so high.)
I didnt say it was at all probable, and being honest I dont think it would happen but you would need some Freidmanite ideologue running the Government. Personally, I cannot think of one.Considering even Enoch Powell was largely favourable to the NHS and at least some form of a social safety net, the question rather arises as to just what sort of Tory would be required.
Saying 'Tories win in '45, dada' is also a cop-out, as if the Tories had won in '45 they would have implented something similar to the NHS, although far, far less centralised. But it would still have been broadly recognisable. All of the parties were signed up to Beveridge by the end of the war. Which means, non-privatised healthcare in some form.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8269462.stmhttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...s-in-denial-over-weight-problems-1791887.htmlMerryPrankster said:They have?
I know French people are legendary for not being fat, but I thought Europeans in general were healthier than Americans.
It could be fairly easy in the case of NHS. If tories wins the war, or if labour has a different set of priorities (which probably would be difficult), a national healthcare system could be introduced on Bismarkian lines instead of Beveridge. Create one or more "insurance companies" (that are guaranteed and largly financed by the government) that pays doctors and hospitals for giving care, thereby avoiding a lot of future complains about NHS.
Both Germany and Netherlands had versions of this healthcare system, and have always had better care and more satisfied patients than the British.