A comment I posted on Facebook…
Let’s assume the @NHS’s troubles are due to inadequate funding and that one political party is to blame — i.e., other political parties would set spending at the “right” level. 1/
Let’s assume the @NHS’s troubles are due to inadequate funding and that one political party is to blame — i.e., other political parties would set spending at the “right” level. 1/
@NHS If you support giving government control over the health care sector of the economy, then, by definition, that means you support occasionally letting that power fall into the hands of the “wrong” political party. 2/
@NHS One might want to wish away, disenfranchise, reeducate, or outlaw the offending political party. But some of those options are undesirable and none of them are feasible. 3/
@NHS As a result, letting the Conservative Party control the U.K. health care sector is a actually fundamental component of the political agenda of NHS supporters. 4/
@NHS It is advocates of a market system — not advocates of the NHS — who truly want to wrest control over the U.K. health care sector from the Conservatives. 5/
@NHS To the extent one dislikes Conservative Party control of health care or thinks Conservative Party control is more than just occasional, one should rationally discount one’s support for the NHS. 6/
@NHS Weirdly, the fact that occasional Conservative Party control over the NHS is a fundamental, inescapable part of the NHS seems to make its most die-hard supporters rally around it more rather than less. 7/7
