[lbo-talk] Factory's Tony Wilson near the end: "I'm a socialist"

[B.]

[Oddly, on some music lists have seen England's NHS
seemingly arbitrary refusal to pay for Wilson's
3500-pound-per-month last ditch treatment effort as
failure of Euro healthcare vs. how the US's is better.
Because in the US you'd def. get the treatment Wilson
speaks of, costs be damned! -B.]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6293176.stm

Friends fund Wilson's cancer drug

Anthony Wilson

Anthony Wilson was an influential figure in the
"Madchester" scene
Friends of Manchester broadcaster Anthony Wilson are
helping pay for his £3,500-a-month kidney cancer
treatment after the NHS refused to fund it.

[...]

[Wilson] was turned down by the NHS, while patients
being treated alongside him at The Christie Hospital
and living just a few miles away in Cheshire are
receiving funding for the [Sutent] therapy.

[...]

"When they said I would have to pay £3,500 for the
drugs each month, I thought where am I going to find
the money? I'm the one person in this industry who
famously has never made any money.

"I used to say some people make money and some make
history - which is very funny until you find you can't
afford to keep yourself alive.

"I've never paid for private healthcare because I'm a
socialist. Now I find you can get tummy tucks and
cosmetic surgery on the NHS but not the drugs I need
to stay alive. It is a scandal."

[...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6293176.stm