Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
As someone who was born and brought up in England, has lived and worked in Scotland for the past 22 years and continues to dither about what to make of the forthcoming referendum on independence, I am finding it harder not to factor in the abolition of the NHS in England.
If England is on such a different trajectory on such a defining issue, such a break in common values, why should Scotland stay linked? Would independence reduce or increase the risk of private health care providers picking off Scotland next? Bearing in mind the English electorate was not consulted on the largest reform in health care since the introduction of the NHS (in fact, the public was told the NHS had had enough of "top-down" management by the Prime Minister before the General Election), can we be sure we would be consulted?
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comme...in-england-has-bearing-on-referendum.21958676
If England is on such a different trajectory on such a defining issue, such a break in common values, why should Scotland stay linked? Would independence reduce or increase the risk of private health care providers picking off Scotland next? Bearing in mind the English electorate was not consulted on the largest reform in health care since the introduction of the NHS (in fact, the public was told the NHS had had enough of "top-down" management by the Prime Minister before the General Election), can we be sure we would be consulted?
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comme...in-england-has-bearing-on-referendum.21958676