[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk>:

> I was sorry to see in your replies to my last e-mail about Dalrymple’s 
> conservative propaganda that you avoided my point that Margaret Thatcher (a 
> hard-line conservative _not_ a socialist) was the primary harbinger of a 
> great amount of unnecessary bureaucracy and related expense in British 
> government over the last 25 years and, moreover, appear to think that there 
> is no problem that most of these "bureaucratic" ideas that the Thatcher 
> orientated governments imposed on the British public came from business 
> “gurus” of the American right.

Since this is your interpretation of recent British history without citing
references I took it with a grain of salt, especially since the Labour 
government which has been in power since 1997 as, according to Wikipedia,
adopted many of Thatcher's policies since its failures in subsequent elections.

> You then quoted an unreferenced (!) Telegraph article which yet again shows 
> that the use of internal markets of primary care trusts within the NHS 
> (which, to remind you, were introduced by Thatcher) are an important factor 
> in the loss of quality in the system.  A genuine Labour party would have 
> removed this conservative aberration from the system years ago.  Even still, 
> having the NHS is far better for the majority of UK citizens than the 
> relatively expensive insurance based system in the US (where it is easier 
> for the unlucky, uneducated and poor to be excluded from high quality 
> healthcare).

You call waiting in line for 4 months to get a necessary operation "quality"
health care? 

Regards,
Platt




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