I think the neoliberal plan is to make the NHS so overworked and underfunded that people stop supporting it, then push private healthcare as the solution and scrap the NHS for a model similar to the US's. Then they can claim that this privatisation is boosting the economy by manipulating data when in actuality all it is doing is giving the rich more wealth from the poor.
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this is genuinely so fucking absurd and crazy to me fym you cancelled the operations are you fucking evil. wall?
This is why healthcare shouldn't be treated as a business.
Oh boy things are going to get fun when the NHS is fully privatised.
UK proving itself as the canary in the coal mine for the west's future since 2008.
They told the BBC: "I had a full day of joint surgery planned this week and patients were just told a few weeks before that their life-changing operations would not be taking place.
"Many of them had been waiting over 40 weeks for treatment. It's devastating for them."
That's... 10 months, no? Nearly a year only to have it canceled.
Oh boy. I can't wait for people who bray about public health being a failure while ignoring steady defunding over decades. I'm really sorry, my friend.
I'm very lucky to be able to get my hands on a few healing roots, stems, and leaves. My neighbor's sibling was able to acquire a needed medicine that was on private property, for me, as well as other more freely available medicinal plants, and even brewed it up into a tea so all I had to do is heat it up and drink it. If I lived in town, I would still be wrecked. But with your health conditions, so much would probably be contraindicated.
Oh boy. I can't wait for people who bray about public health being a failure while ignoring steady defunding over decades.
Public healthcare is only a failure in capitalist countries for this reason. Without changing the social order, publicly funded healthcare is just a temporary concession to the working class, and when they take concessions away, they always tell us they was bad for us all along and that our suffering when they end is proof of that.
Makes Juche all the more sexy (thinking about "aid" packages).
Oh boy. I can’t wait for people who bray about public health being a failure while ignoring steady defunding over decades. I’m really sorry, my friend
It's classical liberal method of manufacturing consent for privatisation in sensitive departments, first defund so it can't work properly then privatise when people complain it don't work properly. They do the same thing for retirements, insurances, education, transport, basically everything they can't outright sell because they fear people would protest. In especially postsocialist countries this happens all the time.
I was looking at some informal polling results locally, very underserved area, it was really disheartening seeing opinions on public vs private schooling, and the framing included-reasons keeping people from private education included expense, but funding was never mentioned for any public school related questions.
This is so evil, I don’t understand how they get away with it.
Can't wait for Trans Britons to leave en masse to Scandinavia and Spain.
I'm always happy for people who manage to escape transphobia, but please don't forget that the poor ones always get left behind. I really hope those who manage to escape end up helping to build a world where someone won't be abandoned the way me and those like myself have been.
Go to Spain comrades is not great up here in the north :/
France and Germany are probably better options for trans healthcare too
huh