spud100
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I'm surprised the times covered this concerning a decades long issue with the NHS. From the 1950's onward the citizens are sort of good with this fact of life as long as they can get some public notice when it befalls themselves, then things go back to normal.
Misery loving company. Falken should comment since he is a British subject.
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1/4/2018, 10:24 pm
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BlueLoaf
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Not denying what the article says about the NHS is true, but take a look at this:
US Worst Health Care
I think the only way to get a well balanced system is a compromise between the two - I've heard France's system which is hybrid (Private / Universal) is well regarded.
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1/5/2018, 12:51 am
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J. Meirionnydd Thomas, a former consultant for the NHS, gave one reason why it is in a bad way.
"I speak for many fellow consultants when I say that our daily encounters with the bureaucrats and pen-pushers who run our hospitals is deeply frustrating.
One of my surgical colleagues, who ran a specialist unit outside London, was driven to retire several months early.
'The final straw, he told me, ' was when a 25-year-old sociology graduate with a second-class degree from a second-class university overrode my selection cases for operations, which were based on clinical priority. These cases were replaced with ones from the waiting list in order to meet the hospital's targets, which was the management priority.
Hospital management is now a career like banking or industry. The entrants rarely come up through the clinical ranks.
They arrive sporting irrelevant degrees and, after a graduate training scheme, go onto earn very considerable salaries-more than 100 senior NHS Chiefs are paid..more than the Prime Minister".
So there we are, a bloated bureaucracy of over-paid pen-pushers is behind the crisis.
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quote: So there we are, a bloated bureaucracy of over-paid pen-pushers is behind the crisis.
I.e. socialism does not work. ∎
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Blue,
The link from the Atlantic is at least as not far-lefty as many other mags/new sites. Still lefty, though. The national health care debate is in flux, and happily the Obamacare mandate penalty is going away.
We will hopefully have States competing to do a good job, and generating some ideas that do not do the "budgetary cancer" aspect such as what the the NHS does to GB's budget.
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