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"Mr President, this seems to be the tip of the iceberg. This clearly looks like EU harmonisation of healthcare systems by the back door, but using pricing of drugs as the mechanism. I would like to point out that there is a huge difference between the insurance- and privatised—based model of healthcare prevalent in most of Europe and the contributory taxation—based National Health Service model that we have in the United Kingdom. I am not at all sure that this step, which seems to be being launched, will not represent a disastrous threat to the quality, cost and provision of UK healthcare services. My voters and my citizens do not want that.
We have got stop blaming the elderly. Many of the chronic healthcare conditions that create the demand are coming about because of lifestyle choices by patients and by individuals of all age groups. We need to do more – if we are going do anything at all – to tackle the source of those problems and start talking about the business interests and the lobbying companies that push the products and create the environmental factors that create the illnesses and the problems for the EU.
I would finally like to point out that if you cannot control your borders, cannot control your population and cannot control demand, you will never, ever be able to meet supply. So if healthcare systems cannot plan because they do not know the number of patients, they do not stand a chance."@en1
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