National Health Service Funding

Dear Mr Prentis

Perhaps in an ideal world, the individual would be able to take full responsibility for his own health care and be able to pay out of his own pocket, for the treatment of his choice, in collaboration with his own private doctor.

Meanwhile it is best for the State to take responsibility for healthcare, because the individual does not have the resources to do so. But if the State finds that its skills with economics are so poor, that it imagines it cannot afford what it has undertaken in the way of providing health care and resorts to turning health care into a money making business, as a way of opting out of its responsibilities, we know for certain that market madness has taken over.

The medical profession has never ever cured a person or an institution of madness. Therefore it will be foolish for Unison to criticise madmen for being mad.

Better by far to take on board a few scientific facts and use those facts to correct what is wrong with modern economics. Thus allow the National Health Service to have the funding, required to do its job.

Here are some relevant facts. Facts not opinions.

Money is man made stuff, we have as much or as little as we choose. It is all too easy to choose to have too little money.

I am referring to the choice which is available to the State, not to the individual. If the individual counterfeits or forges money and is caught, he goes to prison. He does not have the same choice which is available to the State.

Therefore look to see what is the choice made by the State and what is wrong with that choice.

In 1694 the King of England was having a war with France and ran out of money. The King had not won his war and was desperate for money to pay his troops.

Bankers came to the King and offered him all the money required, on condition that the King gave them permission to create the money. “Do what you like, but give me the money” said the King and thus we have the Bank of England.

Whosoever creates and issues a Nations currency has Supreme Power over that nation. The bankers used their power to give themselves a monopoly for the creation of new money. They allow themselves the privilege of issuing new money as credit, for ever-more.

Today new money can only be issued as credit. New money must be borrowed into existence from the banks. The result is that we now have debts of trillions and trillions of pounds and a dire shortage of money. We are forced to borrow more and more new money all the time in order to pay the interest on what we already owe.

Grab hold of the reality of that situation and begin to understand how and why, you are driven to go on strike as a protest against the National Health Service going private. There is something here to notice. The scenario I have described is unbelievable. How do you borrow money that does not exist! What you cannot believe you will find extremely difficult to understand and what you cannot understand is very hard to believe. You are trapped and enslaved by debt.

I suggest you merely observe the fact that what I have told you begins to enable you to see what is wrong. That is very important, because it is perfectly possible to repeal the Tonnage Act of 1694 and restore to Government the sole right to create and issue new money. We can instruct the Government how to do this correctly, which has thus far never ever been known. The benefit of doing this by the Trades Union Movement, will be so enormous, it will change the course of history, for the better.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB

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