On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:16:24 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

The NHS is a 60-year mistake.

Well, who's to say that it isn't.

Considering the US was being held up as the model to aspire to...

Straw man alert!

Umm, no.

Much as people close down conversations on immigration etc by crying
"racist", people try the same diversion when discussing the NHS by
claiming anyone wanting to make changes to it must be proffering the
US system as an alternative.

Small problem. It actually WAS being held up as the better alternative.

By who, and where?

By Helmer, when he claimed on R4 that 80% of Americans had better
healthcare than we do in the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8200817.stm

Just the same as when people say "No immigration - well, except for
nice white Christian-origin Northern Europeans and North Americans and
Australians and the like, because they're like us, so they're OK"
usually IS because the person saying it is a bigot.

Even then it may have nothing to do with bigotry.

No, of course not.

It's just that people different to us are inherently inferior and should
be kept from spoiling our nice country with their presence.