Steelworkers and British Union Counter Lies About British Healthcare

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Steelworkers and British Union Counter Lies About British Healthcare

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The United Steelworkers and the British union
UNITE have set up a website to counter the lies being spread about the
healthcare system in the United Kingdom and the National Health Service
(NHS) which provides it.

Rabid right wingers and Republican office holders continue to spread
outright lies about British healthcare in an effort to influence the
debate in the U.S. over healthcare reform.

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley has said that 77 year old Massachusetts
Senator Ted Kennedy would not receive treatment for his brain cancer under
the British system, and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint said the British
NHS "does not allow" women under 25 to receive screening for cervical
cancer.

These and other lies are directly answered on the website which also
includes factual information about cradle to grave healthcare for all
which is free.

The USW and UNITE officially merged over a year ago. The website can be
seen at:

http://www.workersuniting.org/national_health_service_-_the.aspx