Jan 13, 2023·edited Jan 13, 2023Liked by Adam Bienkov
It's pretty obvious that they wish to marketise health care. They may keep the 'brand' or facade of our crumbling NHS. But it's a long held desire of the Conservative Party to dismantle it.
I was told in 1984 that the then level of NIC’s were insufficient to fund future generational needs in either pensions or healthcare and that we would need private provision - at least as far as pensions are concerned. Today, we see NHS services shored up by ‘add on’ services from the private sector but with which data isn’t shared. It’s massively inefficient, predicated on outdated laws that are woolly at best. If we need (as seems true) privately provided services (absent of direct investment) then a quick win would be to demolish the so called Chinese Walls surrounding data. As for creeping privatisation, we’ll, maybe for some services. But how would this work if everything becomes part of the private sector? What happens to NICs? Would there be relief for private contributions? Would it actually make any difference? How would such a move impact the poorest in our society? What about emphasising preventative medicine? These are huge questions for which I’ve yet to hear coherent answers. One thing is for sure; emulating the US system is a recipe for increased inequality and the potential for late life bankruptcy.
The Tory’s are mini me America Republicans who want to dismantle and do away with anything the government pay for influenced of course by their chums from (Tuffton Street) including schools, welfare, health care. Now is the time for the people to get tuff on this government who don’t want help with anything the government pays for but their quite happy to stuff their donors & family members or the bar man somebody use to know with billions! It’s time for rebelling and show that the public isn’t about to be taken for mugs for the 59h time..
So much of the service is "contracted out" or paid for by PFI contracts that the idea of a publicly owned health service in the UK is pretty much fiction.
And the rot really started under Blair/Brown. Health trusts & PFI were their fault.
So it's probably not sensible to rely on Starmer to sort the mess out.
At the same time, it's pretty obvious that this privatisation really doesn't work. Whether we could take the contracts back into public management and save significant amounts of money is unclear, but we do know that a completely privatised, insurance-based system like the one in the US is hugely expensive & massively inefficient.
Until large-scale services of all kinds - retail, energy, transport, banking, technology, health, water, waste disposal, environmental management, food production - get better quality management that has a rational focus on future sustainability & customer service, and stop being just cash cows for the extremely rich, the rest of us are not going to see much improvement.
The Tories would sell their grandma to make a buck. They'll never change. They don't want anything free at the point of use, paid for by taxation. They will destroy the NHS,, because it's the best idea the UK ever had, and it ws Labour that did it. Then free education. The Police and the Army will be next, They want power, and they want to rule. They're not to be trusted
It's pretty obvious that they wish to marketise health care. They may keep the 'brand' or facade of our crumbling NHS. But it's a long held desire of the Conservative Party to dismantle it.
I was told in 1984 that the then level of NIC’s were insufficient to fund future generational needs in either pensions or healthcare and that we would need private provision - at least as far as pensions are concerned. Today, we see NHS services shored up by ‘add on’ services from the private sector but with which data isn’t shared. It’s massively inefficient, predicated on outdated laws that are woolly at best. If we need (as seems true) privately provided services (absent of direct investment) then a quick win would be to demolish the so called Chinese Walls surrounding data. As for creeping privatisation, we’ll, maybe for some services. But how would this work if everything becomes part of the private sector? What happens to NICs? Would there be relief for private contributions? Would it actually make any difference? How would such a move impact the poorest in our society? What about emphasising preventative medicine? These are huge questions for which I’ve yet to hear coherent answers. One thing is for sure; emulating the US system is a recipe for increased inequality and the potential for late life bankruptcy.
The Tory’s are mini me America Republicans who want to dismantle and do away with anything the government pay for influenced of course by their chums from (Tuffton Street) including schools, welfare, health care. Now is the time for the people to get tuff on this government who don’t want help with anything the government pays for but their quite happy to stuff their donors & family members or the bar man somebody use to know with billions! It’s time for rebelling and show that the public isn’t about to be taken for mugs for the 59h time..
The NHS is already largely privatised.
So much of the service is "contracted out" or paid for by PFI contracts that the idea of a publicly owned health service in the UK is pretty much fiction.
And the rot really started under Blair/Brown. Health trusts & PFI were their fault.
So it's probably not sensible to rely on Starmer to sort the mess out.
At the same time, it's pretty obvious that this privatisation really doesn't work. Whether we could take the contracts back into public management and save significant amounts of money is unclear, but we do know that a completely privatised, insurance-based system like the one in the US is hugely expensive & massively inefficient.
Until large-scale services of all kinds - retail, energy, transport, banking, technology, health, water, waste disposal, environmental management, food production - get better quality management that has a rational focus on future sustainability & customer service, and stop being just cash cows for the extremely rich, the rest of us are not going to see much improvement.
I believe the Tories have wanted to destroy the NHS since Labour set it up based on its being funded by 13% of GDP
The Tories would sell their grandma to make a buck. They'll never change. They don't want anything free at the point of use, paid for by taxation. They will destroy the NHS,, because it's the best idea the UK ever had, and it ws Labour that did it. Then free education. The Police and the Army will be next, They want power, and they want to rule. They're not to be trusted