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Re:An open letter to Jeff Bezos: You are needed to disrupt h... by DanBC on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:23AM (#15376793)
GP asked

> Is anyone in the western world that's not leaning conservative looking to dismantle their healthcare system?

It's important to be honest about this: the conservative party have made the decision to de-fund the NHS and in real terms they've considerably cut funding for the NHS. This is even more true when you look at the changes to the NHS and the collapse in social care.

the changes were splitting out public health (eg, sexual health, drug and alcohol rehab, suicide prevention) to local authorities. Collapse in social care was caused by defunding LAs.

Re:An open letter to Jeff Bezos: You are needed to disrupt h... by lovich on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:45AM (#15376835)
That's a tried and true method from any group that wants to get rid of some system and then gets in charge of said system. Just make it impossible for it to succeed, for instance by decreasing their funding or adding onerous beuracracy that makes everything run slower. After that you can just point to how the system is running poorly as an excuse for dismantling it