Jackie Danicki

Part of me wants to say this is unbelievable, but the fact is that I’m not really shocked. What follows is not satire.

Last night…I watched in bemused fascination as ITV and the BBC both devoted quite a lot of air time to celebrating - that word was used repeatedly - the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service. There has even been a church service, attended by Prince Charles and the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to mark the anniversary of Britain’s monopoly provider of health care, an essentially socialist creation that is hardly emulated anywhere else in the world, and for good reason. None of the major objections to health care that is provided via tax and distributed “free” at the point of use were mentioned. Last night’s stories gave no balancing comments from skeptics or opponents of the NHS to counter the general feel-good presentations.

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