Tory underfunding means 1.2 MILLION people are waiting for vital NHS treatment
Waiting for treatment: thanks to Tory policies, 1.2 million people are being made to wait for vital treatments and operations.
This is the flipside of the Tory plan to give £2 billion to private health firms for non-essential health procedures.
They give £200 million to the privateers’ bank accounts and it isn’t available for brain surgery, cataract treatment and gynaecology – among other vital work.
And the waiting list grows.
This was a conscious choice, made by Tory leaders years before anybody dreamed of a crisis like Covid-19.
They wanted to starve the NHS of cash and resources in order to nudge patients and the general public into the false belief that a socialised medical service can’t possibly work.
(In fact, a system in which everybody pays into a national health scheme is the only way everybody can benefit from affordable health care. Privatised or insurance-based schemes are always either too expensive for most people to afford, meaning they have to live with – and sometimes die with – preventable health problems, or they are rip-offs designed to take cash from gullible punters.)
They didn’t – and don’t – care that people are suffering, and may die, because of their privatisation push, that is not based on fact but on fanatical right-wing ideology.
The long and the short of it is that, if you are waiting months and years for vital treatments and operations, to the point where it is causing you pain and/or even endangering your life, there is a reason.
It is because Conservatives like health secretary Sajid Javid, former health secretary Matt Hancock, and prime minister Boris Johnson – along with all the other Tory government ministers going back to 2010 – wanted you to suffer; wanted your life to be in danger.
If you know anybody who voted Tory, they voted for you to suffer in this way.
And for those of you who actually voted Conservative yourself: what were you thinking? That’s actual self-harm.
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