Last week I had a medical surpríse, which involved being whisked to a giant shiny hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning, pumped full of sweet sweet morphine, scanned with MRI, X-rays, ultrasound and a special endoscope procedure, housed in a large private room for two nights and examined by multiple specialists. They sent me home with a gift bag of (superfluous) codeine and antibiotics, and the total bill came to exactly £0.00.
That’s not me gloating, I just think the contrast bears highlighting as often and directly as possible. A political party campaigned on switching directly from a US-like system to this fully socialist system, and won, and then did it (in three years). But on the other hand, the word “socialism” is often accompanied by a spooky chord and a switch to grainy black-and-white footage. So I guess it’s a real huge dilemma.
