I HATE people like this!

This is Dr Philip Lee, a Tory MP, talking about how people who get supposedly 'lifestyle' diseases such as type 2 diabetes should have to pay more for their healthcare, in favour of the 'truly deserving'. He is a (presumably former) GP at that. I pity his patients!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-phillip-lee-mp/nhs-burden-lifestyle-we-need-to-tackle-an-incr_b_2198912.html

Of course Cristina Odone has enthusiastically endorsed his views in the Torygraph.

Fortunately, not all Tories yet share these views. Philip Hammond opposes it, for example.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/27/nhs-should-charge-smoking-obesity-alcohol-tory_n_2196343.html


As far as I'm concerned, there should be a special place in hell for those who recommend harshness and judgementalism toward sick or disabled people. And as always, this will have its worst effect on those who are also poor - who may therefore deprive themselves of necessary treatment.