Green party leader Natalie Bennett has pledged to scrap the NHS and replace it with a new International Health Service, if she is elected prime minister on May 7th.
Bennett stated: “Urgent reform of healthcare is needed and our plans for a new IHS will make Britain a global leader once more.”
Despite being funded solely by UK taxpayers, the new system would be free at the point of access to all 7.3 billion people on the planet.
The Australian born politician said: “Free, quality healthcare should be a human right available to all, not just those of us lucky enough to have been born here.”
When asked how the Greens plan to fund such a huge expansion of an already overstretched system, Bennett replied: “You cannot put a price on life. So it is our duty as a responsible nation to print as much money as necessary to help those in need.”
Critics of the idea include UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who warned: “Free global health care would act as a magnet for the entire world to come here and we simply cannot afford it.”
He went on to add that “the number of immigrants arriving would be so large that our island would sink below sea level before vanishing off the map entirely.”
Full details of the plans can be found in the Green Party general election manifesto, titled 'A free world starts with a free IHS.'
