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   Leigh from London says:

   Jul 15, 03:14

   Arthur-- Soz to say but the NHS has got better in the last 20 yrs and thats obvious with my own eyes and waiting times. People forget the dire state of the NHS in the 80s and 90s in comparison.
   Plus you will never in all cases always be able to have private care in the uk. Good luck trying but if you ever need very specialist care or ITU you will be moved asap to the NHS in most cases.
   All countries and systems have problems and horror stories. The private USA has many and the private sector here as well. Ive seen mnay a bodged surgery from the private sector dumped at the NHS doorstep or private insurance run out and dump them in A & E with nowhere else to go.
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   Arthur from Italy says:

   Jul 15, 00:15

   Oh F**k it I've had enough of everyone.... Boo hoo :-(
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   Arthur from Italy says:

   Jul 14, 20:57

   T, my first post was to Terry from the midlands,and you steamed in ranting. Go back and read my original post, which was a protest at the Idea those of us who left the uk should not be allowed to have treatment. You attacked me first, in such a way that I assumed Terry was your wife.
   I will say this again you attacked me by stating that you and your wife were leaving because of the likes of me.
   Further more, I still say that the NHS is failing badly and unlike many I have some to compare it with.
   I protested at what Terry said because this Idea would have effected some of my friends. I have no intentions whatso ever of using the NHS, I have private care.
   I am not slinging mud, I am saying what many are saying,the NHS in the past 20 years has slowly gone down hill.
   My experiance from the treatment of some of my reletives is that older people are treated badly, as somehow they are all senile and nurses for example will talk over my father inlaw to my wife.Yet my father inlaw has a brilliant mind. I have seen this with my own two eyes,I have listed other problems.
   Why did the Whitechapel hospital bugger up my sisters leg,so that now she is crippled.
   Why does the Homerton hospital ill treat the old.
   Also another point re my broken ribs, I was informed by a private Doctor that the Homerton hospital should have Xrayed me straitaway to see if there was any danger of a punctured lung.all that rubbishes about painkillers effecting my breathing is exactly that, rubbish.
   You people behave as the NHS belongs to you, it belongs to the people of Britain.You it's staff are paid by us to produce a safe clean environment and to have good medical standards. AND to treat all equaly.
   Your BMA is constantly coming out with reasons why people should not be treated, take fat people, they should not be allowed hip and knee replacements,when research has shown quite clearly that fat or not makes no difference and further more science has now shown that your fat levels are decided before puberty.
   Your BMA activly lies and falsefies research to prove it's points,News paper headlines, passive smoking kills, new research shows passive smoking a real health threat. Funny that 2 weeks later in Nature, paper with drawn,why, because researcher had forgotten to ask participents if they had consumed potato, which in case you don't is a reletive of the Tobbacco plant. Did the BMA publish the fact that this paper was withdrawn, no, check it your self.
   one last point, you T say you are moving abroad,is that move funded by the taxpayer,after all you are all under paid, arn't you?
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   ms from south west says:

   Jul 14, 20:14

   It's all those people in hospitals that march up and down looking important with clipboards that are draining the NHS finances! Considering how computer technology has taken over the systems we still seem to have an abundance of these inevitable floorwalkers sapping the coffers!!
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   John from Lincs says:

   Jul 14, 17:27

   The NHS is the finest system in the world. What causes problems are the time wasters and the whingers. and whiners.
   people are living longer with a better quality of life thanks to the care and proffessionalism of the staff,doctors and Nurses in this great institution. Goverment targets cause the problems. with pressure on staff to perform and the weighted admistration side that need to complete the paperwork and graphs to feed this governments unhealthy appitite for burocracy. the NHS will last for a 1,000 years if left alone to do its job and treat British people when they need it.

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