Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week

Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by gruez on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:22PM (#32573915)

>What pressures would a nationalized system have? How about the fact that normal people don't want to ruin the environment around them? You don't need additional pressure to make sure that doesn't happen.

Elsewhere in this thread people are literally talking about nationalized healthcare systems where people are waiting hours for ambulances, or dying in hospital waiting rooms. I think the statement of "normal people don't want to ruin the environment around them" is applicable to the people working in those healthcare systems, yet it's still apparently happening.

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by amrocha on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:26AM (#32575576)

Entirely different situations. One is happening by design, the other is happening due to external circumstances.

Private companies pollute because dealing with externalities costs money. It's not a problem they're trying to solve, it's a feature they implemented to increase margins.

The NHS doesn't have appropriate funding. If you increase funding you fix the problem. From what I've seen, the NHS used to be great until the 90s when the cuts began.

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by jmfldn on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:35AM (#32576002)

The NHS is collapsing due to politicised defunding. The NHS is a sacred cow in the UK so the right can't overtly criticise it, instead it's death by a thousand cuts (pun intended).

Remember Noam Chomsky's quote on this subject? "Privatisation technique: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital". The latter part is already happening.

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