>The NHS is a tragedy and I almost wish they'd just hurry up and privatise it so I don't have to pay with it with my taxes anymore, which means the Tories achie

>The NHS is a tragedy and I almost wish they'd just hurry up and privatise it so I don't have to pay with it with my taxes anymore, which means the Tories achieved their goal. I hear this bandied about a lot, but do you have any evidence to support this claim. "In 2006/2007, 2.8% of NHS spending went to private providers, rising to 4.4% in New Labour’s last full year in government and 4.9% in the first year of the Coalition. About 7.6% of NHS revenue spending in 2015/16 went on purchasing care from private providers.12 In the three years from then to the Covid-19 pandemic, private spending flatlined, with the combined non-NHS spend of Commissioners and Trusts being under 8%.13 The Chief Executive of the NHS predicted in 2015 that the proportion of NHS work going to the private sector would be unlikely to increase beyond ‘the margins’.14 He has been proved right." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01410768211049807 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01410768211049... From what I've read Labour was also responsible for the privitisation of healthcare. Not that I'm personally opposed to some privitisation in a sensible manner, but the privitisation debate just seems to be some form of political attack with little grounding in reality.