health care accessible to all must be defended. privately and even if we could the principle of We can't afford to buy our health care Working people deserve better than this. through lack of cash. tors are limited to 25 operations a year transplants in one hospital alone because doc- children died waiting for bone marrow ding to a report issued in December, 97 job. tax concessions and it's probably not his only £477,100! On top of this he also gets special year bringing him up to an annual pay of British Oxygen, got a 76 per cent pay rise this in wages! The super fat cat, R Giordano of directors are getting a record total of £6.6m In Tory Britain, the top fifty company most health workers. twice as large as the annual pay packet of And people are dying needlessly. Accor- waiting for operations. Over half a million people are at this moment geriatric, psychiatric, and chronically ill care. closed hospitals, reduced facilities for charges, national insurance contributions, The Tories have raised prescription Court judges were awarded pay rises over eke out an existence. In May this year High workers have to scratch for every penny to to their people in high places while health Tory priorities give giant handshakes two children. poverty line for a married person with than £82 a week, the government's own WORKERS HOSPITAL VOUR BUPA and contract supply companies. panies, the private medical schemes like to fill the coffers of the pharmaceutical com- cher and her government bleed the NHS dry While accusing the unions of greed That- the bills. He died. because he hadn't medical insurance to cover who was turned away by 40 US hospitals press told the story of a badly burned man OVER 400,000 NHS workers earn less low paid the Support caused it.
SUPPORT have to look at the USA. Recently the British for profits and not for people is like we just If we want to see what a health service run them. and sell it off. Working people have to fight tend it. The Tories are trying to run it down and it's the labour movement that must de- It was Labour that brought in the NHS say let the bosses bear the burden class bear the brunt of the economic crisis. We government's attempts to make the working workers could seriously challenge the Tory By winning the full 12 percent the health Into accepung a wage cut. mass unemployment to frighten the workforce private sector as well. The Tories are using public sector and to set the pace for the - they PAIRSES system and the workers who maintain it. to the long struggle for a decent health care union sums up the attitude of working people South Wales Area Executive of the miners' at Penrhiwceiber pit and a member of the This statement from Dai Davies, a miner wages.' workers in these hospitals who live on slave prepare another round of wage cuts for the Thatcher wants to use the health service to job they do is necessary and important. Why should they? The money is there. The cent in the last two years. will have taken a real cut in wages of 15 per they settle for the same amount this year they per cent, far less than the rate of inflation. If But in 1980 HS staff settled for only six
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