Pain clinics are closing. Hip and joint ops are cut. Diagnostics cut so you find out too late what's wrong. Women are giving birth on the floor or alone, screaming in pain and at risk.
The new high speed rail ink London Birmingham will cost £17 billion.
That's its estimated cost so it will come out more in the end.
The train will save just 30 mins journey time.
Only it won't, because you'll arrive at a new station outside the centre of Birmingham and have to get a shuttle into the centre.
Green benefit is uncertain or negligible.
Which would you rather have - one high speed train connection or thousands of hip replacements, pain clinics, diagnostics and nurses?
Remember those who decide these cuts don't use the NHS. Ministers and MPs have private medicine paid for by our taxes in their pay packets.
Our taxes also pay to train most of the doctors, nurses and other staff in private hospitals. Private hospitals should pay an extra income tax by the employer on all their staff, to go straight into training NHS nurses doctors etc.
But do think about how we'll benefit from a shiny new train with so many more people being crippled and in great pain. The two projects cost around the same.
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