Because the Tories are gutting it to force those that can pay to go private. Look at the number of advertisements for private health on TV, almost as many for betting.
There is nothing that Brits, especially boomers, won’t sell off for a short term tax cut and a house price bump. That includes the NHS. That’s our new religion: house prices and short term tax cuts
I think that it still is a religion. The one brilliant element of the Government’s response to COVID was the phrase ‘protect the NHS’ and later ‘thank key workers’. And it seemed to work as a rallying point.
But that’s not the point of the article. Conservatives are doing what they did last time they had power. They run the service down. More profoundly though, the NHS was born broke and is still broke. That’s why it has always saved on training by importing foreign workers.
*The supposedly “nationalised” NHS is a parastatal corporation making multimillionaires out of the owners of third-party providers.*
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This is the crux of the problem. As we keep seeing elsewhere whenever private interests are involved in public service it costs a packet and becomes quickly third-rate.
The NHS could be massively improved just by removing all these private interests, and no need for any additional funding.
They are following the British rail blueprint.
1. First they underfund
2. Then they throw more money at it but don’t invest in anything useful
3. Third they say it is beyond repair and only the private sector can help.
It would appear we are thick enough to fall for this.
I sware the only people who are utterly beholden to the NHS are those who have not lived somewhere in the first world (not USA).
I lived in Switzerland and France, neither have an NHS and the healthcare was so good everytime I have to the use the NHS I get upset.
There are dozens of solution to healthcare. The NHS is one answer, the US is the wrong answer. There are alternate options.
Reform is not needed, more practitioners are.
If 6 million need treating, 6 million will still need treating regardless of what form the NHS takes.
If XX amount of healthcare professionals are available to the NHS, there’ll be XX amount of healthcare professionals available regardless of the form the NHS takes.
So, fund training and offer better pay. Problem(s) solved.
Mask off moment. I remember when “the NHS is a religion” was something its critics said hyperbolically
NHS evangelism is really fucking irritating, it makes it impossible to have a discussion about reform and improvement.
Nearly every other socialised healthcare system in the world runs on some permutation of the Bismarck model, unlike ours. In particular the French, German and Swedish systems all use private providers funded by state insurance with much better patient outcomes than ours. European healthcare systems provide us with a perfect model where effective healthcare is delivered utilising privatisation, but people ignore that and instead point at America, the anomaly.
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Because the Tories are gutting it to force those that can pay to go private. Look at the number of advertisements for private health on TV, almost as many for betting.
There is nothing that Brits, especially boomers, won’t sell off for a short term tax cut and a house price bump. That includes the NHS. That’s our new religion: house prices and short term tax cuts
I think that it still is a religion. The one brilliant element of the Government’s response to COVID was the phrase ‘protect the NHS’ and later ‘thank key workers’. And it seemed to work as a rallying point.
But that’s not the point of the article. Conservatives are doing what they did last time they had power. They run the service down. More profoundly though, the NHS was born broke and is still broke. That’s why it has always saved on training by importing foreign workers.
*The supposedly “nationalised” NHS is a parastatal corporation making multimillionaires out of the owners of third-party providers.*
****
This is the crux of the problem. As we keep seeing elsewhere whenever private interests are involved in public service it costs a packet and becomes quickly third-rate.
The NHS could be massively improved just by removing all these private interests, and no need for any additional funding.
They are following the British rail blueprint.
1. First they underfund
2. Then they throw more money at it but don’t invest in anything useful
3. Third they say it is beyond repair and only the private sector can help.
It would appear we are thick enough to fall for this.
I sware the only people who are utterly beholden to the NHS are those who have not lived somewhere in the first world (not USA).
I lived in Switzerland and France, neither have an NHS and the healthcare was so good everytime I have to the use the NHS I get upset.
There are dozens of solution to healthcare. The NHS is one answer, the US is the wrong answer. There are alternate options.
Reform is not needed, more practitioners are.
If 6 million need treating, 6 million will still need treating regardless of what form the NHS takes.
If XX amount of healthcare professionals are available to the NHS, there’ll be XX amount of healthcare professionals available regardless of the form the NHS takes.
So, fund training and offer better pay. Problem(s) solved.
Mask off moment. I remember when “the NHS is a religion” was something its critics said hyperbolically
NHS evangelism is really fucking irritating, it makes it impossible to have a discussion about reform and improvement.
Nearly every other socialised healthcare system in the world runs on some permutation of the Bismarck model, unlike ours. In particular the French, German and Swedish systems all use private providers funded by state insurance with much better patient outcomes than ours. European healthcare systems provide us with a perfect model where effective healthcare is delivered utilising privatisation, but people ignore that and instead point at America, the anomaly.