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Backlash in Britain Over Defense of NHS/NICE

August 17, 2009 (LPAC)—Within 48 hours of the British Establishment's across-the-board intervention, to defend the British National Health Service and NICE, a rift has emerged among Tory leaders over precisely whether the British healthcare system is viable. It seems that a large bloc of Tory MPs and even several shadow ministers, have issued calls for the elimination of the NHS, as having failed and being out of sync with 21st century needs. Recently, Tory Europarliamentarian Daniel Hannan, gave an interview to Fox TV in America, warning against any attempt to create an American healthcare system modeled on the deeply flawed NHS/NICE. And a group of leading Tories, including David Cameron's close ally Michael Gove, were co-authors of a 2005 book, Direct Democracy, which called for the end of NHS. A total of 20 Tory leaders more recently endorsed Hannan's trashing of the British healthcare system in another book, The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain.

Apart from the inter-party wrangling, the London Sunday Times was forced to back off of some of the more outlandish claims of the superiority of the British healthcare system. While citing Barack Obama's stepmother, Kezia Obama, as someone whose life was saved by NHS, the Times admitted, "Although the once horrendous waiting lists of the NHS have been drastically reduced after huge increases in spending, more than 230,000 people are still waiting at least 18 weeks for treatment... In addition, the gap in life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas of England has widened. Concerns also remain over restrictions on expensive or experimental treatments." The article added that, in the United States, the survival rate from prostate cancer, after five years, is 92 percent. In Britain, it is 51 percent."

Lyndon LaRouche noted that this backlash could have devastating political consequences for the British. "The last thing they need is a domestic political eruption at this moment."


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