Labour accused of betraying the NHS after Wes Streeting says the health service needs more private-sector involvement
Labour accused of betraying the NHS after Wes Streeting says the health service needs more private-sector involvement
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‘A slap in the face to nurses, doctors and NHS staff in desperate need of a pay rise’
I'm no fan of Streeting but he's been very consistent here; use private to reduce backlogs whilst simultaneously increasing NHS capacity.
If he does this, I don't see the problem. If he doesn't, well, fuck him.
Private to reduce backlogs is a scam, it's an excuse to divert funding. It only make sense if you don't think about it at all.
Every single conservative government around the world spins up a different reason why privatization is the answer, because they are drooling at the idea of having it run like the U.S
Never takes long for the US to be brought up. Even though literally no one wants anything to do with it because they know it's shite.
There are more than two options for healthcare provision, and it's annoying how everything is boiled down to "NHS vs US".
The problem is that we have to stick with our utterly dreadful healthcare purely for ideological reasons.
When the right do this on a particular policy, it's rightly denounced. When the left do it, it's "morally correct".
It's not for ideological reasons, and nobody is saying there shouldn't be a reform. Investing in private healthcare is a scam and not the proper way to reform. It's almost impossible to go back from depending on the private sector, so they are trying to just get your feet wet.
If you think It's hard to reform a public system, wait till its all tangled with private care, hiring more private care while we take care of the backlog of weaning off private care? The only investments made should be public, and drastic.