valium was sold for years to the NHS at £1,962 a kilo.
Forty and 50 per cent profit margins are common for the drugs No wonder the NHS is crumbling, starved of state funds - capital expenditure will have been cut by 28 per cent in real terms between and milked for private profit. And of course, when the NHS can't provide the service there are a growing number of private medical schemes and top doctors who are prepared to - at a Hospital Waiting Lists, Private and Public Condition as private patient Hysterectomy 2 weeks Vasectomy 2 weeks Gynaecological operations 1 week Cataract operation 2 weeks Tonsillectomy 2 weeks Source: Expenditure Committee So when you can't get a home because interest payments now mean it can cost £216,000 to build a council house; when your kids are in classes of 40 and more while thousands of teachers are on the dole; when you can't get into hospital for years when you need an operation; when you're a woman and you go mad because your kids are round your feet all day because there are no nurseries to send them to; you know what to do.
Organise and fight back against the Tory policies of the Wilson Government which are destroying the welfare state. Because in a few years time you won't even be able to take another valium....dear"
Length of waiting Length of waiting under NHS 4 months 2 years 12 months Over 1 month 18 months * Cutting the Welfare State (Who Profits)
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