Comments on: And now the NHS not giving out drugs for free is apparently a bad thing

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:02:19 +0000

A family member recently died from cancer and was cared for within the NHS during her final weeks. Whilst there is much wrong with the system, there is also so much that is wonderful, and that is primarily the incredibly warm hearted and compassionate nurses who who will sit and care and cry and laugh with their patients.

A relative from America was blown away by the nurses over here, saying the US healthcare system is possibly more efficient as it is ran like a business, but certainly not, in his experience, as personal and caring as ours.

Having said that…Friday night at A+E is not a time or place for tea and sympathy! Silly man.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:45:06 +0000

It wasn’t insulting racism, just a satirical response to Hannan’s comment on the video about the British custom of ‘beating each other up on a Friday night’.

By: Jerome Go

Jerome Go — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:35:00 +0000

That’s juste amazing, it is always strange to read such things (particularly for a non american)…

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:52:45 +0000

Hannan is an idiot. But please stop with the insulting racism.

Americans are indulging in their ‘quaint custom’ of shooting each other on every night of the week,

That sort of crap is insulting, and if it were a racial group condemned as racist. Perhaps I’m being over sensitive, but when a person you love is constantly attacked for accident of birth, well, it starts to get a bit old.

As for the wonders of the NHS – I’ve known many people treated like crap with self inflicted wounds by NHS staff, simply because they’re self inflicted.

The NHS and the US systems are both piles of crap and both for similar reasons – politicians seek to control them.

If governments would give up their war on the poor and stop supporting monopolies in the medical profession people could afford their own healthcare – and have money left over to help others who are temporarily in need.
Instead, government colludes in price fixing, reduces opportunity and then say they’ll fix it all if only you give them more money and more power over your life…

By: James Graham

James Graham — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:59:32 +0000

Perhaps in Dan’s friend had pointed out that he personally knew Dan Hannan MEP, he might have gone to the front of the queue?

Anyway, if his only problem was painkillers why didn’t he just hang around on a street corner for five minutes, flash his cash, and get some heroin. Self-diagnosis being his strong point, I’m sure he’d be fine.