With the Conservative continuing with Labour’s dismantling of the National Health Service, the UK could see TB returning and it reaching epidemic proportions. We are an intensely populated island, which would make an ideal breeding ground for this disease spread rapidly and over-power the resources of the NHS.
EUobserver.com / Social Affairs / Tuberculosis – an old plague comes back stronger.
A blog about the privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS) by the present coalition. But the author does point out that Labour are to blame for the financial crisis of the NHS. And that Ed Milliband, if every elected, would only bring back the same disastrous Labour policies. In the mean time, the Liberal-Democrats do not seem to have anything to stop this privatisation. Unlike the rest of Europe, who have well funded health care services, the UK is following the USA route, where care is only for the rich.
And another article, this one from the Guardian newspaper, on how a few are profiting from the privatisation of the NHS:
Health care sell-off makes GPs millions
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