Former health-secretary Sajid Javid has weighed in on NHS reform suggesting we need to pay £20 for a GP appointment and £66 to go to A&E as a way to solve the NHS funding crisis.Writing in an op-ed for The Times,he said "extending the contributory principle" should be part of radical reforms to combat growing waiting times.
He said it’s the only way we can preserve the principles of the NHS, although I and many others thought it was built on it being free at the point of delivery, and has remained throughout, out of the belief that healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth,with health and care as priorities – not profit.
These ideals remain one of the NHS’s core principles. that we must all support and fight for.The NHS belongs to all of us. It is funded by our taxes and National Insurance contributions. We own it. It does not belong to the Tories and it is not theirs to sell.These proposed charges are the inevitable Tory solution to their own self made NHS Crisis, and NHS waiting lists, make the NHS too expensive for poor and disabled people to use with a tax on illness. and is a direct attack on the principles of the NHS that doesn't solve it's problems and discriminates against ordinary working families.
Sajid Javid's idiotic recommendation which have been greeted with scorn and disdain are nothing to do
with the fact he's a consultant for Morgan Health,by any chance? A
private health company who want to get a piece of the NHS when the
Tories sell off the NHS bit by bit?
His call comes months after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was forced to retract plans to introduce a £10 fine to patients
who missed GP appointments. The measure was widely criticised by health
professionals but indicative of further conversations of reform to
come.
Javid - who announced he won’t be standing as a Conservative MP in the
next general election - added that “too often the appreciation for the NHS has become a religious fervour and a barrier to reform”.
But the honest reality is Javid and his ilk. a bunch of liars, self serving, greed driven clueless chancers. have put the NHS on life support, but they are hoping the patient doesn't survive.The Tory government has run the NHS into the ground and Javid's
calls for ‘reform’ are simply an excuse to privatise it. Maybe try
funding it properly instead and tax people more fairly. I’ve no doubt
it’s been a plan for a while, but it will be the final nail in the Tory
coffin if they succeed and will never be forgiven.
Quite aptly, the very word "Tory" is derived from the Irish word "tóraidhe", meaning robber. They are quite simply rotten to the core.The Tory's are trying to destroy our beloved health service, but we cannot allow them to achieve their
aims, working with health workers and the unions we must fight
together tooth and nail to stop this from happening. A third strike in the ongoing NHS pay dispute takes place on Monday 23 January. Support the strikers fight for a real pay rise. Reverse privatisation and outsourcing! Kick out the profiteers and the Tory robbers for good..
