I think the tldr is people are more often turning to private health care, sometimes through go fund me or similar. No information is given about how the NHS is being privatised at all.
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This is exactly the way everyone thinks it is being privatised
*For decades, droves of middle class Britons have gone private to get treated faster. This has always reflected their capacity to pay as much as the urgency of the need. But when thousands of people on low incomes feel forced to raise money from strangers to circumvent a struggling healthcare system, this is surely the starkest signal yet that the NHS is at breaking point.*
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This is refering to the rise of ‘GoFundMe’ style actions that seriously unwell people in Britain are having to use in order not to have to wait years.
The UK has become a dystopia this last decade, starting first at the bottom social tier then moving up. **I am convinced that the ‘middle class’ are still of the opinion that it won’t ever hit them…**
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I think the tldr is people are more often turning to private health care, sometimes through go fund me or similar. No information is given about how the NHS is being privatised at all.
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This is exactly the way everyone thinks it is being privatised
*For decades, droves of middle class Britons have gone private to get treated faster. This has always reflected their capacity to pay as much as the urgency of the need. But when thousands of people on low incomes feel forced to raise money from strangers to circumvent a struggling healthcare system, this is surely the starkest signal yet that the NHS is at breaking point.*
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This is refering to the rise of ‘GoFundMe’ style actions that seriously unwell people in Britain are having to use in order not to have to wait years.
The UK has become a dystopia this last decade, starting first at the bottom social tier then moving up. **I am convinced that the ‘middle class’ are still of the opinion that it won’t ever hit them…**