#no2NHS

A new group is now up on Facebook to tackle the abject nonsense spouted by the #welovetheNHS crowd.

It's aim is to get #no2NHS as a trending tweet on twitter and help publicise some of the reasons why we need to get rid of the NHS.

My personal view on this subject is that a lot of the #welovetheNHS people are putting mindless nationalism ahead of reality. And maybe Gordon Brown should get some evil REPUBLICAN Americans to start criticising him to help improve his approval rating.

Here is the group's mission statement...

Help end rationed healthcare in Britain - make #no2NHS the No.1 tweeting trend.

The NHS doesn't save you - medical practitioners do and they deserve to work in a better system.

The debate about Obamacare verses the existing US system, verses the British NHS has been bogged down by pointless exchanges of anecdotes and quoting of irrelevant statistics.

This Facebook Group seeks to clarify the debate and make a forceful point. The NHS is not the envy of the world. It is a deeply flawed system and results in the preventable deaths of more 17,000 people every year. The US healthcare system is also deeply flawed, but on objective measures it is better than the NHS. To reform US healthcare, the President must not go further down the road of socialised medicine but use consumer-led, market-based reforms.

For the British nurse and Director of Nurses for Reform, Dr. Helen Evans, increasingly socialised medicine inexorably leads to a murderous and Sovietised nightmare. She believes that Obamacare will drag the US down a horrific road.

In her recent book ‘Sixty Years On – Who Cares for the NHS?’ she describes the full horror of British state healthcare. She points out how hundreds of thousands of patients often wait many weeks and months on waiting lists, while thousands of others spend ages just trying to get on to them. She describes a system where political voice means that often professional and middle class people access more than 40 per cent more resources per illness episode - over and above those received by patients further down the social scale. Highlighting widespread neglect of the elderly, the mentally ill and the disadvantaged she not only points out that more than 10 per cent of NHS hospital patients pick up infections that they did not have prior to being admitted but that thousands of NHS hospital patients also die each year through malnutrition.

It was Dr. Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute who famously commented:

“If a privatised health service had made many of its patients wait for 18 months for their operations, put them on trolleys in corridors when they arrived, given more than a quarter of them an illness which they did not have when they arrived, and confiscated the organs of their dead babies without bothering to seek their permission, or even to tell them, people would have blamed privatisation. For that matter if one of its practitioners had murdered 150 of his patients, or one of its surgeons had removed healthy kidneys instead of diseased ones, or one of its teams had conducted smear tests so incompetently that operable disease was not treated, while healthy women were unnecessarily subjected to distressing operations, all this would somehow have been put down to the reckless pursuit of profit, or to putting shareholders ahead of patients.”

If you like it join up and start tweeting #no2NHS.