Nurses for Reform Blog

This is a great piece by Daniel Hannan in last Friday’s Daily Telegraph.  After being much misrepresented following his Fox News interview, he clearly sets out the following points;

1. The UK healthcare debate is not about insulting the people who work in the NHS it is about reforming a system that, for sixty years has failed the people who need it most.
2. That those who argue for NHS reform are not automatically suggesting that we follow the American healthcare system, that is full of flaws too.
3. There are other systems around such as the Singaporean health savings accounts, that do work well to provide the people who need it with good and affordable healthcare.

I have not yet read Daniel’s book, but I think that it will probably be a very good read and I am very much looking forward to exploring his views on healthcare reform in more detail.

Friday was a good day, in media terms, for NFR.  In addition to me doing a live interview in the morning on BBC Radio Somerset, one of my advisory board members represented the organisation when speaking later in the day on BBC Radio Leeds.  In both interviews NFR’s hostility to socialised medicine and the NHS was stressed, as was its hostility massive state healthcare programmes such as medicare and medicaid in the US.  In the BBC Radio Leeds interview, NFR’s preference for Singaporean style health savings accounts was made under which consumers are encouraged to build up a pot of money that they can then spend on competitive healthcare services thus avoiding the damaging third party payer effects involved in private medical insurance and tax funded care.

Today Nurses for Reform have partnered with the British think tank Progressive Vision and launched the on-line campaign #No2NHS.  

Standing in opposition to Obamacare, this campaign not only seeks to inform the American public on the willfully negligent realities of socialised medicine, but it aims to provide British people with an opportunity to attack the National Health Service and all forms of state run healthcare.

Details of this campaign can be found on both Facebook and Twitter.

Tomorrow morning I will be on BBC Radio Somerset discussing why the NHS is not the envy of the world and why President Obama and the Americans will be foolish to follow this model for reform of their health care system

My recent article for the Institute of Economic Affairs blog has been well recieved within the high circles of the blogging world and featured on both Conservative Home and Mark Wadsworth’s Blog.

Conservative Home is one of the UKs leading centre right blogs and Mark Wadsworth is one of the most read Libertarian bloggers.