About a third of the money going into the NHS pays for privately placed doctors and nurses and the use of private care*. Now the far right of the Tory party is just trying to persuade us that we no longer afford our health care to be "free at the point of need". We still live in a country that is one of the richest in the world. Of course, we can afford it.
We can discuss the systems used in Europe. However, it is the one they use in America that this government wants. Can anyone on this forum say they can afford that? Do these people care about you? These Trumped-up-Conservatives are not the Conservatives of the past. They do not believe in investing their money and working hard to build businesses. Those who did this in the past provided jobs for their communities and were often held in high esteem.
This lot believes only in profit and in that profit going into their pockets and the pockets of their mates, even if it takes fraud to do it. They go into companies, knowing nothing about how they work and invest none of their own money - but they can read a balance sheet. They know what to strip out - often jobs - to give them personally the greatest profit before they go on to the next job. Never mind if they destroy the business in the process. They will be long gone by the time that happens.
"Find the profit in the Health Service" is the game now. This is accompanied by a scarcity of tax paying by high "earners" so that there can be no fight back to keep a health service "free at the point of need" for all.
*Happy to see figures that show this is either too low or too high and estimate.
Army horses loose on London streets
Well Labour’s “patriotism” didn’t last very long, did it? 🇬🇧
The majority of Israeli Jews do not want to occupy Gaza.