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In England in 1948 the then Labour Government set up what is now called The Welfare State, which means that the State looks after its citizens from cradle to grave.   Or rather this was the plan, but it is not how it has worked it.   Now it has been suggested that the USA goes the same way and many do not like it and neither, it seems do many in England, with one of our Euro MP’s saying why he does not like the Health Service as it presently exists. But like everything else there are good and bad points to it.   One of the bad ones is that the English one has more or less fallen into the hands of the drug companies.   What they do is study Nature and see if they can find something that they can take, extract part of it, and manufacture a drug(s) from it and then charge the earth on the basis, that they had to do a lot of work to bring it to the market. But what is not told the general public is that they have found something that they cannot do this with and have suppressed it because they cannot make money from it.

One of the good things about our Health Service is that it is free at point of need.   You fall down, as I have done, are taken to hospital, and operated on.   No one asks if you have the insurance necessary to pay for it.    I am really pleased about this when someone from the USA mentions this as being part of my outgoings.

This has been on our News for the last few days.  Another items was the fact that 5 people benefitted from organ transplants.   Someone had agreed to donate their organs after they died.  Their liver was removed, divided in 2, one part was given to a 6 month old baby the other to someone with a diseased liver, which was removed and given to a man with cancer in his liver in what is called a Piggyback Transplant.   The other organs were given to 3 other people.

One of the things that people grumble about as far as our Health Service is concerned is the waiting lists where people need to have an operation to correct something that is malfunctioning, such as a hip that needs replacing, but is not life threatening.   There is also what is called “The Postcode Lottery”, with people from one part of the country get treatment while in another do not.

From this it can be seen that there are both good and bad points to the U K’s National Health Service.   My advice to both those who want to set up a similar system in the USA and those who oppose it is not to concentrate on one aspect be it good or bad and ignore the others, but study it and see how the good parts can be improved and the bad ones dealt with.