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Are the shortcomings of the NHS really all Johnson's fault?

You write that as if someone had actually claimed they were.

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The prime minister said the press was not present but Salem pointed to the TV cameras.

Has an over/under been set on the number of lies Johnson will tell before his time in office is over?

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That's what you get from a government run healthcare. Inefficient management, long waiting lines and high costs. I just googled that hospital and here's what i found. The hospital is run by an agency which is part of the NHS. So, a government agency runs another government agency which runs a state owned hospital. And they wonder why is the hospital not run efficiently? I guess the only way to fix the problem is by creating another govt. agency that should be in charge of the first two.

Few months ago i watched on the Bulgarian news about a Bulgarian woman who have lived in England for over 32 years. She had a brain tumor, and the English hospital had booked her an appointment for 51 weeks from then! She immediately flew back to BG, went to visit a private hospital (a Japanese one, actually), where she underwent a brain surgery and her life was saved in 3 hours. Of course, news like that will never, ever appear on the English media because they violate two essential and core terms of service rules. Rule number 1 - never speak positively of BG. Rule number two - never speak negatively of England.

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Rule number 1 - never speak positively of BG.

Very few people care about Bulgaria one way or the other.

Rule number 2 - never speak negatively of England

This has no basis whatsoever in reality.

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Inefficient management, long waiting lines and high costs

Lol you think government run healthcare leads to high costs? Tell me how much more expensive NHS is than the "market based" US system is? Hint: it's not.

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Hey Omar Salem, Boris Johnson has been in Prime Minister Office for just two months.

How can you think Boris Johnson has destroyed NHS?

It doesn't matter.

You have insulted the doctors and nurses at the Hospital where your daughter was patient.

Doctors and nurses are doing their job and they know what they are doing best for your daughter. They do not neglect your daughter treatment. The doctors and nurses will do all necessary treatment for your child, but they do not do unnecessary things. You have accused the Hospital for neglected your daughter treatment. That you're insulting and disrespecting to the integrity of the doctors and nurses.

Every doctor and nurse will give their patients all necessary treatment and they will do their best effort to save their patient's life even if there was a shortage of medical supplies. I believe you owe an apology to the doctors and nurses at the Hospital where your daughter has been treated by the doctors and the nurses.

If you're a civilized person and then you must go and say apology to doctors and nurses who are treating your child.

You're also opportunist and you have created 15 minutes of fame for yourself. Shame on you Omar.

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Omar Salem

Salem says on his Twitter account that he is an activist with the opposition Labour Party

Is he really British? Or is he an imported Labour activist.

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The NHS has been starved of money since 2010, purely for ideological reasons. There are over 40,000 nurse vacancies, other areas also have massive recruitment problems. At the same time the number of patients seen by the NHS has gone up - much of this is due to cuts in social care and and mental health provision. These people have no where else to go so they turm up at the local A&E for help. Also, budgets for non-patient areas such as buildings and maintenance have been cut.

As for those claiming the NHS is inefficient, it's one of the most cost effective health care systems in the world. It just has NO MONEY.

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Very few people care about Bulgaria one way or the other.

And yet your media vehemently adheres to those rules. For someone who doesn't care, they seem very dedicated to their job. But i wasn't specific enough. The rules are, when it comes to BG, it's either nothing or negative. If there is a story they can't not report, they would put a negative spin on it. If there is a story they can't put a negative spin on, they don't report it. Those are the rules. I didn't invent the rules. I am just describing them for people with weak observational skills. I am not deriving any conclusions either, i rather let people do that on their own. You state a conclusion with no facts. I state facts with no conclusion.

By the way, did your media report on the English pedophile who got arrested in BG last week for molesting Bulgarian kids? Yep, that's what i thought. Just another fact.

I also find it funny how you try to convince me that the anti-Bulgarian people in your country do not represent the majority, and yet you want me to believe YOU represent the majority.

Lol you think government run healthcare leads to high costs? Tell me how much more expensive NHS is than the "market based" US system is? Hint: it's not.

Healthcare in the US is not market based anymore. It used to be in the past, but it hasn't been since at least 2 decades. Healthcare in the US is based on the single payer system, and that's why it's so expensive, because there is no price competition. Some parts of the healthcare industry are not single payer based, such as the eye laser industry, and those industries where there is market competition are the cheapest ones. I don't know why it's so difficult for people to accept a basic observation and 5th grade logic. If the govt. is the sole payer, then what incentive does a hospital has for reducing prices? If you are a hospital, and you know the govt. is paying for your customers, why on earth would you want to cut prices? You have no reason to cut prices, you have reasons to raise prices knowing the govt. can never run out of money. Same goes for college tuition with the govt. guaranteed student loans. Prices go down only when there is competition, in the absence of competition, prices go up.

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