Reply #11: The WSWS is speculating on the outcome many years ahead

[muriel_volestrangler]

The changes the Tories announced they want to make to the NHS are worrying, but the WSWS is exaggerating about what is proposed now. If you want a realistic evaluation of them, then a more reliable source in, for instance, The Guardian. Some things like "the bill also abolishes the duty to provide a comprehensive health service and to ensure equality of access" are, as far as I know, fantasy, and there is no talk about any insurance-based system coming in. And what has actually been proposed has proved so unpopular, with voters and the doctors, nurses and others in the NHS, that the PM announced a 'pause' in the process to consult people. The Health Secretary (Andrew Lansley) now looks isolated in the cabinet, and the worst bits of privatising which, if they'd gone ahead, could have eventually ended up with a single payer system rather than a health service, look unlikely.