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2007-01-12 07:48:29 · 19 answers · asked by ? 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The NHS (UK) is being systematically deconstructed: hospitals closed down, jobs cut and morale undermined as fewer people are expected to do the same work, risking patient safety. I personally believe this is a deliberate attempt to gradually introduce competition via private sector clinics, to eventually privatise off the NHS piece by piece.
Why are jobs being cut if they know there will be a shortage...perhaps they are trying to make jobs more scarce in order to drive down the cost of staff; is this linked in any way to the free movement of staff within the EU? They dont even have to take a language exam....maybe East European consultants will be much cheaper than UK ones.
The campaign that has made GPs look like greedy money-grabbing individuals is totally blown out of proportion, highlighting only the highest earners who run their own practice and offer lots of additional services and take on the associated headache. Why shouldn't GPs be rewarded for the work that they do. Most other professionals are. The Government is trying to claw back the money they have paid when they under-estimated how well GPs would do, by now reneging on an agreement about pensions.
All in all, the future is not bright for the NHS.
2007-01-12 08:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by teary chocolate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be a good thing. It would reduce taxes and will weed out all the fakes and time wasters. Waiting lists would be slashed and maybe the nurses might get a decent wage. Every time the NHS is sued it costs the taxpayer a fortune, this cost would also be passed on to the private companies. They would obviously strive to reduce the number of law suits and thus provide a better, safer and more efficient system. Appointments would be on time. There would be many more hospitals and many more treatments available to everyone. That is what Medical Insurance is all about. You will only be paying for your own treatment and there will be less people claiming false benefits for the terminally lazy. For genuine cases that cannot afford it, there could be a NHS referral centre in each town, and if the case is genuine then they could be given an NHS referral to the same facilities as those that can pay. It could also apply to Doctors surgeries where a massive amount of money is wasted could also follow suit. I think it would be a good thing.
2007-01-12 08:15:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is the other way around. The large corporations that control most of the hospitals know that the spiraling costs can't go on forever, so they are desparately trying to get every dime they can out of the system, before they start selling the "unprofitable" ones. A large number of these hospitals were non-profits, and were bought by large corporations so they didn't have the competition.
Socialized healthcare is the norm in most of the developed nations, and it is just a matter of time before the U.S. has the same system.
Capitalism encourages greed, and we have discovered that greed cannot be a part of certain parts of our economy (road maintenance, police officers and public utilities, for example).
As airlines have shown, driving a company into bankruptcy can be an profitable move. They broke the union contracts, and passed the liability for the poorly funded pension plans to the government. I'm guessing the large healthcare companies have something similar in mind.
2007-01-12 07:58:40 · answer #3 · answered by Thomas Nigel 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There seems little doubt that this is the case.
Recently there were a number of American health experts in London looking at the NHS, and it had nothing to do with the health of the NHS.
In the last week, the NHS has outsourced a Hospital to a company called Care UK, a big player in the Nursing Home Care business.
It has strated already. The idea is that we all get so sick of the bad news that anything seems better, devious little bastards.
2007-01-14 00:11:21 · answer #4 · answered by manforallseasons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's the only sacred cow that the Labour party has left, they can't destroy it. They are privatising as much as possible so that parts of it can be threatened w. bankruptcy. At the end of the day what sane investors would want to insure the health of this nation (unless the poor/sick half were to be excluded as in the US)?
2007-01-12 07:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The money problems in the NHS stem almost entirely from the doctors' new contracts, which doubled their salaries for doing less work. I blame the civil servants for not telling the truth about the costs and passing the info onto the ministers.
2007-01-12 07:51:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think its being deliberately run down in order to plead the case for more taxes come budget time!!! Its this Governments usual crafty ploy,and most people fall for it. There will be huge tax increases come April!!!!!
2007-01-12 08:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
National health care is a self destructive format without anyones help. Private sector typically always does better than government.
2007-01-12 07:55:07 · answer #8 · answered by Ben B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What national health service?
2007-01-12 07:51:28 · answer #9 · answered by Brian M 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's been done before, but the newspapers will blame immigrants as usual.
2007-01-12 08:05:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋