Everyone - rich or poor, man, woman or child...

- can use it or any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few items. There are no insurance qualifications. But it is not a “charity”. You are all paying for it, mainly as taxpayers, and it will relieve your money worries in time of illness. - National Health Service Manifest 5th July 1948.

I will never forget that the current Government cheered two years ago when they successfully stopped a bill that would have allowed my pay to be unfrozen after ten hard years. I will never forget, even when they are clapping and waving shiny rainbows in front of my eyes to distract me.