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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Normille on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:34AM (#26435633) 

  >The NHS is a socialist anachronism
Always makes me laugh when Americans use "socialist" as a derogatory term. A huge number of people in Europe [myself included] are proud to consider themselves "socialists".
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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by arethuza on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:47AM (#26435754)
To be fair the founder of the NHS did see it as a socialist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."

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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by arethuza on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:03PM (#26437933)
To be clear: if the NHS is socialism (and I think it is) then I'm happy to have some socialism in my country.
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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by nix23 on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:14AM (#26437314)
Yeah must be a bad thing being a society who helps each other...like a family probably would..terrible TERRIBLE :)
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