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Turborama

(22,109 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 04:49 AM Mar 2014

"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay..."

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If you want to share it, it was posted on FB by Keith Ordinary Guy

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"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay..." (Original Post) Turborama Mar 2014 OP

Blessed is he who sees things so clearly... ReRe Mar 2014 #1

k&r& gratitude & admiration for him & HORROR at those who now seek to dilute the NHS! LeftishBrit Mar 2014 #2

When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1951 Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2014 #3

ReRe

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1. Blessed is he who sees things so clearly...

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 06:08 AM

Mar 2014

... as well as those who are affected by his extraordinary vision. ~ReRe

LeftishBrit

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2. k&r& gratitude & admiration for him & HORROR at those who now seek to dilute the NHS!

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 07:38 AM

Mar 2014

Fortinbras Armstrong

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3. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1951

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 08:08 AM

Mar 2014

He asked Claude Guillebaud, a Cambridge economist, to head a committee to study the performance and efficiency of the NHS. The Gillebaud committee found that the NHS was highly effective, and needed additional funding to insure that effectiveness would continue. Churchill gave the NHS that additional funding.

Even Margaret Thatcher realized that eliminating the NHS would be political suicide.

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