Without the NHS, nearly all parents would be unable to afford a drug listed by the manufacturer as costing £1.79million per dose. This includes people such as plasterer Reece Morgan, whose son Arthur was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and is the first in England to receive Zolgensma. Funded by us all through taxation, so that medical care is free for everybody who needs help, the NHS is socialism in action. After the rapid development of vaccines against Covid-19, the US gene therapy is further proof that medical science is an overwhelming force for good. Scientists and the NHS will give us the gift of life if politicians and the public give them the tools and funds to do the job.

Source: Daily Mirror May 31, 2021 23:00 UTC