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It also has to spend money well, stimulate growth, and whole lot of other things than taking people's money away to patch things. The only option as it stands i

It also has to spend money well, stimulate growth, and whole lot of other things than taking people's money away to patch things. The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS.

fakedang 3y ago
> The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS. This is akin to political suicide though. Remember, the conservatives' Brexit battle cry was 300 million pounds for the NHS.
- gumballindie 3y ago
  Well it’s either the NHS, the tories, or the country. Labour dont have a plan either. Taxing everyone to death is patchwork. The UK is in deep, deep, trouble and it ain’t the politics causing it. It’s the culture of making one bad choice after the other.
  - fakedang 3y ago
    Between the three choices you mentioned, it's pretty obvious the Tories are going to take down the country before taking down either themselves or the NHS. Although in all fairness, the quality of service in the NHS has already gone down for both doctors and patients.
KaiserPro 3y ago
> The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS So we have a shortage of doctors, nurses and hospital places. Currently the state keeps a lid on costs because it sets the wages of about 1 million people nationally (more or less, its complicated, but doctors are paid in grades, and those levels are nominally set nationally, same with nurses, however scotland, wales and NI have some level of independence.) We have huge pent up demand (7 million people on the waiting list) And we have a limited and shrinking skilled workforce. It takes a good 12 years to train a doctor. 6 to train a nurse. what do you think will happen to wages when the whole thing is privatised? Yeah, so privatising healthcare isn't going to make things cheaper. especially as the NHS is pretty cheap per head by EU standards.
HWR_14 3y ago
Alternatively, Britain could go back to allowing Polish doctors in to make up for the lack of domestic medical personnel. That may require rejoining the EU, but probably not.

It also has to spend money well, stimulate growth, and whole lot of other things than taking people's money away to patch things. The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS.

fakedang 3y ago

> The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS. This is akin to political suicide though. Remember, the conservatives' Brexit battle cry was 300 million pounds for the NHS.

gumballindie 3y ago
Well it’s either the NHS, the tories, or the country. Labour dont have a plan either. Taxing everyone to death is patchwork. The UK is in deep, deep, trouble and it ain’t the politics causing it. It’s the culture of making one bad choice after the other.
- fakedang 3y ago
  Between the three choices you mentioned, it's pretty obvious the Tories are going to take down the country before taking down either themselves or the NHS. Although in all fairness, the quality of service in the NHS has already gone down for both doctors and patients.

KaiserPro 3y ago

> The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS So we have a shortage of doctors, nurses and hospital places. Currently the state keeps a lid on costs because it sets the wages of about 1 million people nationally (more or less, its complicated, but doctors are paid in grades, and those levels are nominally set nationally, same with nurses, however scotland, wales and NI have some level of independence.) We have huge pent up demand (7 million people on the waiting list) And we have a limited and shrinking skilled workforce. It takes a good 12 years to train a doctor. 6 to train a nurse. what do you think will happen to wages when the whole thing is privatised? Yeah, so privatising healthcare isn't going to make things cheaper. especially as the NHS is pretty cheap per head by EU standards.

HWR_14 3y ago

Alternatively, Britain could go back to allowing Polish doctors in to make up for the lack of domestic medical personnel. That may require rejoining the EU, but probably not.