Re:How Palantir Will Steal the NHS
by throwaway290 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:24AM
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You need to track not just population but the amount of people who need the service. If population becomes older (which is generally the norm in a developed country) or otherwise less healthy (which may well be the case considering environment and food pollution) then even keeping the same number of people still requires the budget to be increased appropriately in order to be able to cover a given user equally well.
> The collapse here wasn't a slow event anyway, it has very clearly been triggered by lockdowns/vaccines
Absolutely fucking mental mate.
Re:How Palantir Will Steal the NHS
by origin_path on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:05AM
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Yeah, totally mental. Me and the rest of the country, mate. The part you quoted is by far the least controversial aspect of anything I've said. In 2019 these problems weren't happening to anywhere near the same extent. Once lockdowns hit getting appointments has become drastically harder and this is widely reported.
And the NHS isn't being privatized anyway so no clue what you're even talking about. Privatizing it might start to fix it. Good luck getting contracts that pay you by size of your patient list and not how much work you actually do, in a properly privatized system!