I am amazed how many Drs were happy to go along with americanisation of health while it didn't affect them? Happy to ration, to privatise, denationalise, close hosptls & say 'medicine's changed, it's more complex, people live longer, treatments are more expensive' etc when what
they actually mean is they are happy for people to be denied care, happy to exclude people, to close hospitals, to move to an insurance-based system, an americanised system which necessitates large numbers being excluded so the providers, drs etc can make more money
The system they prefer/imagine is a public private hybrid where the public purse funds & patients pay, which guarantees their pay/funding, they can select which patients they think are deserving enough & they don't seem to mind that many millions don't have access to it.
However, what they misunderstood though is that their own services were also dispensable. They think this cosy system would mean seeing fewer patients for more money but big business has other ideas. To make big £$ they want to cut staff too particularly expensive staff
None of it is about making patients better
Now it's coming back to bite them,belatedly they've realised & some hv the cheek to still blame the public, saying patients need to decide what type of healthcare we want-
Now it's coming back to bite them,belatedly they've realised & some hv the cheek to still blame the public, saying patients need to decide what type of healthcare we want-
The public didn't even know govts were restructuring the health service away from Bevan! We didn't
vote for this!
vote for this!
They suddenly want the public to be up in arms over Dr replacement when they still don't see or regret that they were/are happy to throw us under the bus & deny us care, repeating propaganda about 'ageing population ', 'bed blockers', 'malingerers', 'complex treatments'
'we can't afford the NHS', 'things are very different now compared to 1948' etc
It's about handing £billions of public money to big business to provide minimal care to fewer paying patients, in fewer hosptls, by downskilled staff. That's how you make profit from ill health
It's about handing £billions of public money to big business to provide minimal care to fewer paying patients, in fewer hosptls, by downskilled staff. That's how you make profit from ill health
And unless we all- staff/Drs & patients- show reciprocal solidarity, all demand reinstatement of the Bevan model & renationalised health- then this lucrative race to the bottom will continue & society will get sicker, poorer, more dangerous for all
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