Ian, is it true that you are on holiday this week?

Ian?

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray Murray and this week we're

going to be talking to MD privatized medical correspondent about the state of the

NHS now it's reached the grand old age of 70 we'll also be talking to France's ween about murky goings on

an electoral spending, specifically those that hit the headlines last week

after the Leave campaign was found guilty of overspending on its campaign, but which Private Eye broke two years ago.

But first, the NHS has been in the headlines a lot recently, as it has just turned 70. Not only that there is a new health secretary after Jeremy

help was shifted to the foreign policy brief. So how exactly is it looking? I

spoke to privatized medical correspondent Phil Hammond, aka MD, and I asked him, first of all, at the age of 70, how is the patient doing?

It's still offering a version of universal healthcare, which I guess is what it was set up to do so

health for everyone according to need and not ability to pay but I would say it's not

really doing that anymore because we've got waiting lists above 4 million now.

We're getting people with conditions like autism, mental health issues, learning disabilities

who were just flatly refused any care at all.

My neighbor has just had to crowd source 80,000 pounds to fund a new leukemia drug to stay alive, which Nice says works, but is too expensive for the NHS. It's widely available in European countries already. So I think it's, you know, we sort of love it and as

Nigel Lawson said it's sort of a religion and heart a challenge, but we need to think very carefully about how we're going to

sustain it and I think we should compare it to other European countries. There are

plenty of other European countries that provide universal health care. They just

tend to do it through a mixture of social insurance, private

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