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This makes great sense... 3 Years, 10 Months ago
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Re:This makes great sense... 3 Years, 10 Months ago
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No it doesn't!: Sikora has been debunked - www.thecanary.co/uk/2017/02/22/bbc-newsnight-last-night-video/
... and he is a cynical believer in alternative (cranky) 'medicine'; has misrepresented himself as an honorary professor at Imperial College, London; and thinks the NHS is the last bastion of communism. What a dude!
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Re:This makes great sense... 3 Years, 10 Months ago
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JK2006 wrote:
The Canary piece actually supports the view of privatisation without intending to;
It does no such thing. The final paragraph in the piece reads:
"Any analysis of the NHS which neglects the impact of debt-laden PFI hospitals and chronic underfunding is at best incomplete, and at worst dangerous. It allows politicians and the media to scapegoat patients, staff, and the concept of the NHS itself, rather than take responsibility for a crisis of their own making. The UK has a GDP (amount of wealth we produce each year) of over £2tn a year. The NHS costs us just £116bn. UK citizens pay less money, for better care, than almost any other healthcare system in the world.
Sikora argues we can’t afford to keep the NHS. The truth is, we can’t afford not to."
So Sikora's motives are crystal clear: he wants himself and others of his ilk to make money out of healthcare in the U.K. Fortunately, the majority of British citizens disagree with him, and believe firmly in keeping a publicly funded and operated NHS. We love our NHS.
I'd rather receive healthcare in the U.K than run the risk of having an insurer in the U.S.A. finding an excuse not to pay up. One such scenario can be when 'your' doctor moves to another organisation. The truth is they pay more per capita for healthcare and receive less on average per capita in outcomes. Some people are forced into going bankrupt in the U.S. if they have life threatening illnesses. You can also see people limping around on crutches because they don't have enough insurance to pay for operations. They have a huge unnecessary health insurance sector as well, selling and administering policies, and processing claims; the NHS requires none of that. This country is far too civilised to sacrifice its great NHS to the private sector.
Conclusion: The UK beats the USA by miles on universal healthcare. Nuff said.
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