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

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 13 11:00:19 PDT 2007


[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



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