06/06/2011
Aaron CarrollIgor Volsky posts:
While Republicans are trying to privatize government health care in the United States, conservatives in Britain will promise to protect the government’s central role in that national’s health care system today when Prime Minister David Cameron rolls out his five health care pledges.
What’s in these pledges (emphasis mine)?
The series of personal pledges will include keeping waiting lists low, maintaining spending and no privatisation.
This is the head of the Conservative party in the UK.
by Floccina on June 6th, 2011 at 12:56
It makes sense once you have it it is conservative to keep it and to not make any big changes. It also makes sense for conservatives to want to keep Medicare the same.
by Marc Brown on June 6th, 2011 at 14:21
Speaking as a Brit I can tell you that you should not rely on items in right-wing newspapers such as the Daily Mail. Privatisation of substantial parts of our health service is absolutely in the pipeline from our conservative government (which is actually supposed to be a coalition of Conservative and Liberal Democrat), as in fact it was under the previous ‘new’ Labour administration.
by RC on June 7th, 2011 at 11:44
Shift the entire spectrum to the left, and “conservatives” will be further to the left as well. Nothing particularly profound in that discovery.