Quote Originally Posted by Heathblue View Post
If we use Dental treatment as a yardstick, this past 3 years has seen shift from NHS to private treatment not as a policy but the real world situation of getting an NHS dentist, I'm an NHS patient but the treatment I've had the past 3 years has all been on a private basis not because of choice of wanting to wedge them up but because I didn't want to wait in excess of 6/8 months for treatment, it's being forced due to lack of NHS availability, trying to get a doc appointment now is difficult in many parts especially face to face, how many women will spread their fanny apart in front of a monitor to a doc but would do it face to face in a surgery?, Blair started dismantling the NHS, continued and then some, by the Tory brigades since, the stealth operation will continue under Starmer, and when a majority are paying for it, we'll get the reveal that treatment will go all insurance based, this is all opinion of course, but also takes into consideration, observation of the past 2/3 decades and the manner at which the now failing NHS service has been gradually run down.
Fair comment.

That is certainly the direction of travel - but it doesn't have to be that way.

A small start would be to end the public subsidy of private profit - fraudulent contracts as exposed during Covid, and public investment in training for future private sector medics. And the waste of the internal NHS market. And the disappearing 40 new hospitals promised by the Blond Buffoon. And the drift towards funding Big Pharma profits at the expense of the taxes and lives of working people (we are not in the situation of the USA yet - but it is on the table in the post-Brexit trade negotiations with the Americans).