Now to health and today's Ft contains a fictional letter from the health secretary Alan Johnson to a patient explaining why the NHS won't treat people who buy drugs privately.
It's a massive put down for the health secretary and well worth a read.It begins
Dear Mrs Wilson,
I am sorry to hear about your cancer. But I would like to take up a few minutes of your fast-ebbing time to reassure you that, even though my decision to refuse you NHS care if you insist on paying privately for a drug may shorten your life, it really is for the best. I recognise that it may not seem that way to you, but then again you are rather ill and so not in the best state to judge.
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