Widening health inequalities match UK poverty patterns
►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/heal-j16.shtml
British society today is characterised above all by its vast social polarisation. As the majority of the population faces a day to day struggle to get by, the nation’s super-rich enjoy more privilege than ever before, with their wealth rising by £77 billion to £336 billion in 2010, their biggest gains in 22 years, according to the Sunday Times’ “Rich List”.
Health inequality is set to worsen, as cuts and privatisation are applied to the National Health Service (NHS) as part of the austerity plans of the coalition government, which seeks to shift the cost of the more than £1 trillion bank bailouts onto the backs of the population.
Rapport accablant sur la paupérisation galopante de la société anglaise et la dégradation de l’état sanitaire général et d’une explosion des inégalités.
Vu les effets de la pauvreté sur la santé et l’espérance de vie, on peut réfléchir à l’idée d’un génocide ciblé par privation des moyens d’existence, et pas qu’en Angleterre.