Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources?

Re:Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary car... by toyg on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:59PM (#15912131)

Aren't you tired of rehashing the NPfIT failure, literally decades since it started and even 4 years since the press last covered it? It's just become a talking-point, a right-wing meme. The new systems are not faring much better; it's just a set of hard problems from an organizational perspective.

Conflating IT mistakes (10bn over 20 years, 500m per year - peanuts, from a government perspective) with the entire NHS expenditure, is just misleading propaganda. This is why we can't have a civil debate on what the NHS should and should not provide: the fixation on cost-cutting and its opposite knee-jerk reactions stifle any attempt at reasoning about actual problems.

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Re:Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary car... by gaius on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:12AM (#15912403)

It's just become a talking-point, a right-wing meme. The new systems are not faring much better

That's a really weird thing to say: are you asserting that the "right wing" is complaining about billions in public money being funnelled into the pockets of capitalist shareholders? Or is "right wing" just your word for "anyone who disagrees with me"?

I'll grow tired of it when the government stops doing business with these companies, insources all the IT work, and hits them with a windfall tax to claw it all back. Is that what you call "right wing"?

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