NHS must reform or die, PM warns, after critical report

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• flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Raise taxes on working people or reform to secure [the NHS’] future. We know working people can’t afford to pay more, so it is reform or die.”

  Alexa, show me a false dichotomy.

  It’s amazing how the their report names austerity as the culprit of the NHS’ waning condition, but Streeting’s solution seems to just change where money is allocated. The UK spends significantly less on Health compared to other developed countries, is it really surprising that our results would be significantly worse?

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, has anyone considered taxing corporations and the rich?

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    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The last guy to suggest something like that got branded an antisemitic commie and was kicked out of the party.

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    • 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We can’t do that! We’d lose the House of Lords! Think of the history! Think of their children’s mega yauts and private schools!

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  • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I live in the US (granted I watch a lot of UK content) and even my first reaction at reading the headline was along the lines of “then fucking pay/fund them instead of setting them up to fail!”

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• sneak100@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m guessing by “reform” they mean taking the whole thing private? What is it with these ghouls having such a hard on for the us

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    so, uh. it must die or die? that’s the choice?

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    • theturtlemoves@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cake was never an option.

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, still trying to kill off the NHS I see, this has been their plan all along. Make it worse and worse so they can kill it off and sell healthcare to their friends so that the poorest die off.

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  • MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was the old government. We had an election recently and now we have the other party in charge who…

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    … are continuing to do the same thing as the old government while blaming them for it.

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, the tories are worse in a lot of ways. But I don’t think labour are much better.

      Glad to be an anarchist, and see how shitty they all are.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Two cheeks of the same ass.

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    • Baggins@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.

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• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My hope is that the reform is in the form of more early intervention at a community level (which is kinda what we had before the Great Gutting over the last decade).

  Though going by the mood in this thread, I should be emigrating to Sweden…

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• griD@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The beast has been proclaimed starved.
  I’m sure nobody saw that coming.
  Can you already drown it in a bathtub?

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally we got rid of the party who want to dismantle the NHS to profit their wealthy donors!

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