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I heard this line so much regarding the nhs in the lead up to the election.
This London fire has highlighted that private companies will take any shortcuts necessary when they primary aim is to make money.
Disgusting negligence that cannot be replicated in our health system.
Ah yes, our wonderful NHS - completely negligent -free. Having just lost a friend who suffered at the hands of the NHS [who have only recently admitted liability], can't say I'd agree with that. Also, not sure what 'negligence you're referring to, but obviously not the fire fighters sending residents back into their flats when they were leaving to escape..
I'm in no way suggesting that the NHS is perfect and i also know of needless deaths under the care of that system.
However, my partner is a nurse and i know how much pressure is being heaped upon her service due to the current squeeze that is going on.
Like others have recently echoed, the current accepted approach is that if something is not making money then it cannot be successful.
For me lives are far more important than money and i believe it's evident that we are heading towards an American style health insurance system.
As someone who hasn't got a huge amount but could probably afford private health care for my family i still don't take the approach that my family is all that is important.
I believe that everyone deserves free healthcare not just the few.
If you analyse it treatment by treatment (I will assume you aren't making it up) of course you will find things that are inefficient within the NHS. Simple truth is that the total amount we spend on healthcare in this country isn't enough, pretending that privatisation will fix the problems present within the UK healthcare sector is frankly insulting people's intelligence.
Government knows this, any drive for privatisation is simply to distance themselves from the disaster waiting to happen.
Can I just say Mid-Staffordshire Health Authority if we want to discuss negligence.
Oh, please don't keep on saying "Magic money tree", it's just "strong and stable" mark II .
I'm not denying what you say, but haven't the events of the last few days almost certainly proved that "cheaper" doesn't always mean better?
I look at the four points the writer of this piece about the Grenfell Tower fire
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ant-inequality
makes to sum up what he says and I can't help thinking he's nailed it completely.
Also, the penultimate paragraph of this piece
https://www.ft.com/content/94ba1a62-...abdc0?mhq5j=e2
makes a very telling and, so relevant given current events, point about the attitude of someone who was in a very influential position in the Conservative portion of the 2010-15 Coalition government.
Frankly, anything or anybody that thinks in the way described in those two links (and I accept that it can be said to a smaller degree about the New Labour administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown) should be kept well away from the NHS!
On a related note, i think the conservatives are starting to find the "magic money tree"
The simple fact is that all the wonderful systems that people cite as alternative methods of operating healthcare share one thing, the cost per head is higher. It feels like they are running it down in order to justify privatisation.
Privatisation is the 'magic money tree' of the right, it solves all problems. I am with you on not ignoring the waste, and I fully agree that did happen all over the public sector. The majority of cuts now are beyond that, public sector is expected to pretend to the end user that the service will stay the same whilst funding simply won't allow it - a good example of this is the facebook response by the firefighter to Boris that was posted in the thread on the main board.
I was able to do so at the time I posted it, but can't now - I found an article which mentions the part I talked about;-
"If this latter point sounds exaggerated, consider the Whitehall career of Steve Hilton, who was David Cameron’s “blue sky thinker” before moving to California to become a Silicon Valley sage, then returning last summer to detail the case for Brexit and show off his tan. In government, Hilton ran a “red tape challenge”, hoping to banish reams of dead weight from the statute books. Instead, as the former Liberal Democrat adviser Giles Wilkes records, weary civil servants had to defend basic safety measures: “Only the determination of hardy officials saved the public from the return of flammable sofas.” "
Private companies don't always look to squeeze every penny instead of protecting the public as you suggest. That is a way of looking at business that corbyn instills in the public. Hate first, logic later.
The vast majority of private firms operate above and beyond what is required.
Why? Because that is good for business. Social media and the media can absolutely destroys brands nowadays. The brand, service and product quality is everything.
A relative of mine had an op to fix arthritis in his hands on the NHS. THey made them so much worse the only option given was private care (which failed due to had bad the previous ops went) or amputation. I know very few people who have had good experiences with the NHS.
I don't understand the in's and out's. More money should be put into it. Until that time the discussion on whether it is viable can't be made really can it?.
But funding does rise year on year doesn't it?.
I know, it's awful the way some people bang on about 'where's the money going to come from'. Who wants to bothered by all that capitalistic mantra, eh ?
On the subject of the NHS, I can't understand the national obsession with it. It wasn't the first by some decades, and it certainly isn't the best -far from it. And it's certainly been privatised in part since 1948. The private sector has developed the life-saving drugs, the life saving procedures, the life saving equipment. And continues to do so. I've had a procedure carried out which was developed by a large American Company, and I take a couple of tablets that were developed and tested by another drug company. True, the excellent surgeon was excellently trained in the public/NHS sector, but nobody would stand a chance without those nasty businesses and corporations ..
What do they say about sarcasm being the lowest form of wit?
What you say does nothing to counter the main thrust of what is said in that article - - there has been a philosophy in Government for thirty years or more (including under a Labour Government) whereby safety is compromised on the back of financial and ideological considerations.