article_snippet: Nigel Farage claimed Nigel Farage was 'fobbed off by one NHS doctor to the next', and, without private health insurance, Nigel Farage would 'probably be dead'.
article_snippet: Nigel Farage, pictured after a plane crash on election day in 2010 admitted the NHS was good in emergencies .
article_snippet: The Ukip leader accused other political parties of being afraid of criticising the NHS .
article_snippet: The Ukip leader has also taken the opportunity in The Ukip leader memoir to attack the other major Westminster political parties over the other major Westminster political parties fear of criticising the NHS.
article_snippet: The Ukip leader said that The Ukip leader is 'better qualified to criticise and defend our health care system than most politicians'.
article_snippet: Mr Farage praised the NHS for being 'astonishingly good' at emergency critical care but claims the NHS will 'probably let you down' over screening and a fast diagnosis.
article_snippet: Mr Farage said our health care system is 'so over-stretched that if you can afford private health care, you should take our health care system' and warned that the NHS is so battered and poorly run that unless you are really lucky, you will fall through the cracks'. '
article_snippet: There are huge problems with the NHS, deep structural ones, but, as I have said, I know more than most what that means on a personal level,' Mr Farage wrote. '
article_snippet: When I had cancer, the incompetence and negligence of the NHS almost killed me, but the incompetence and negligence of the NHS has also saved my life.
article_snippet: I am certainly not taking any flak from gutless politicians who claim that I am no fan or supporter of the NHS.'