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Ed Miliband operation


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How comes he has jumped to the front of the que for NHS treatment. I have been waiting months for my arthroscopy on my knee.

One rule for politicians and another for us harding working folk

or is he a member of BUPA

 

How do you know he's jumped to the front of the queue? He, too, could have been waiting for months and you don't know otherwise.

 

My other half had an arthroscopy and then surgery for a knee problem on the NHS, all within 6 weeks of seeing his GP. But that was about a year ago. Waiting lists have become longer in the past few months.

 

Oh and EM's op is being done on the NHS - read the BBC link above and you'll see that.

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Oh and EM's op is being done on the NHS - read the BBC link above and you'll see that.

 

He should go private, he can afford it. The money spent on his op could then be used by the NHS. Bloody annoys me that rich politicans from both parties use the NHS because they feel it's politically right to do so . The more people that go private, the more NHS money for the rest of us.

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He should go private, he can afford it. The money spent on his op could then be used by the NHS. Bloody annoys me that rich politicans from both parties use the NHS because they feel it's politically right to do so . The more people that go private, the more NHS money for the rest of us.

 

Rubbish!

 

He believes in the NHS and would only be accused of being hypocritical if he paid for private treatment. Much as, in the same way, his parents chose state education for him and his brother.

 

And it's simply not true that the more people that go private means more NHS money for the rest of us. We would quite simply become like the US (who are trying hard to emulate what is generally considered to be the best national health service in the world). Private medicine cherry picks the safest operations and leaves the tricky ones to the NHS. Unfortunately, were that carried to the extreme, there would be no training in real medicine available to students. And training in emergency medicine would be severely compromised.

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