Comments for Nurses for Reform Blog

Comment on Rip Off NHS by Helen Evans

Helen Evans — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:50:52 +0000

Richard, I am definitely in favour of lifting the private patient income cap. I just expect the NHS to be more competitive if they want my business

Comment on Rip Off NHS by Richard Blogger

Richard Blogger — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:38:08 +0000

So does this mean that you are for or against the plan to lift the private patient income cap?

Comment on So much for the NHS Promise! by Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:26:27 +0000

World In “Not Perfect” Shock Horror

Comment on Nurses welcome government plan to scrap NHS Direct helpline by Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:25:50 +0000

“Nurses welcome government plan to scrap NHS Direct helpline”

You mean “Nurses For Reform welcome government plan to scrap NHS Direct helpline”. You don’t speak for all nurses. Actually, do you speak for any nurses except yourself?

Comment on Coalition moves goalposts on cancer drugs by Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:22:49 +0000

So you’d be happy to pay higher taxes to pay for these drugs, right?

The money has to come from somewhere. By saying you want the NHS to pay for them, you’re saying you want higher taxes.

Or cuts somewhere else. If so please spell them out.

If you want higher taxes please break that down for us as well.

While you’re at it could you tell us why cancer drugs get all the attention and other needed drugs don’t?

Comment on Government falls at the first hurdle of healthcare reform! by Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:31:42 +0000

Now could a government relying on soping wet liberals (without a liberalist thought; ever)nfor its exhistence do otherwise?

Comment on Government falls at the first hurdle of healthcare reform! by Helen Evans

Helen Evans — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:42:19 +0000

No, I am not surprised that this has happened. Thank you for your comments, you make a good and valuable point.

Comment on Government falls at the first hurdle of healthcare reform! by Voluntarist

Voluntarist — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:03:14 +0000

You sound surprised at this… And I hope you know that the Big Society is just the new version of the Third Way, ie: corporatism, not liberalism.

Comment on NFR has lots of fun with the political class at the Oxford Union by Ann Kriebel-Gasparro

Ann Kriebel-Gasparro — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:06:04 +0000

Hello Helen,
It was interesting to find your blog on Health Reform. I was searching for a blog I just developed, Nurses for Health Care Reform (in the U.S.) I was interested in many of your comments on the NHS, and was, frankly, surprised. I have been a nurse / nurse practitioner for 20+years, board certified as a Family and Gerontological NP, and currently in school for my DrNP ( that is a Doctorate of Nursing Practice) which is what got me interested in politics. If you are interested in the political workings from the inside and can access C-span ( on line also) or NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124075675 it is a great way to hear and see the coverage of some of the debates.
Just to comment: the uninsured are a big problem in the US. Unless they go to the ER – they do not get health care, which means they do not get dental care, medications, or mental health care and psychiatric medications. We have 30 million of these people in the U.S. The health care reform debates right now are centered on the people who are the employed without health insurance – because it is too expensive and they cannot afford it. Health insurance is a big, profitable business here, and if you have a pre-existing condition – you can be denied, or dropped – even on the on the way to the OR – yes, it has happened. Our system is broken, and its not just verbage, I’ve personnaly seen it in my 25 years as a nurse, and also have a son age 32 who cannot get insurance.
AnnMarie

Comment on This House Would Rather be Unwell in Britain than America NFR Speech to Oxford Union on 4 February 2010 by Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:33:14 +0000

I’ll do a full-blown critique of this later but just for starters – don’t you think, when comparing healthcare in Britain and the US, that you should have actually compared healthcare in Britain and the US? Rather than reciting the usual litany of NHS horror stories (”Herceptin!” “Dead babies!” – what I like to call the Daily Mail Gothic genre), and then saying some stuff about the USA, but not actually comparing the two countries on any measures? All this tells us is that you don’t like the NHS. We know that. To convince people, you need figures and arguments. There are lots of them out there, few of them favorable to your case, such as that US spending on healthcare is twice ours but their life expectancy is more than 1 year shorter. Hmm. I can see why you don’t like numbers, actually.