Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Stalinist?

I was reading a piece by an American guy called Raffi Melkonian what I spotted this.

British Tories, for example, constantly argue that people should vote for them because they'll protect the UK's flatly Stalinist free health service

Stalinist?

Of course the NHS is a socialist idea, I'd argue with bureaucratic, wasteful and inefficient but at least I would understand where the argument is coming from, but Stalinist?

Last time I looked we weren't presiding over purges of the wrong type of doctor or shooting patients. So what's Stalinist about the NHS?

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