Posted on 09/07/2024 2:53:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The NHS in England has been "broken" by successive Conservative-led governments - and the state it is now in is "unforgiveable", Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC. In his first major interview in Downing Street, the prime minister said a review of the health service to be published on Thursday finds changes to the NHS were "hopelessly misconceived". He said austerity in the coalition years, and then the Conservative government's handling of the pandemic, left the NHS in an "awful position". Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir added that the review by an eminent surgeon, Lord Darzi, is expected to reveal too many children "are being let down" by the health service.
"Everybody watching this who has used the NHS, or whose relatives have, knows that it’s broken," Sir Keir said. "That is unforgivable, the state of our NHS." In response to Sir Keir's comments, shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins said after 14 years in opposition, "Labour's instinct is to politicise children's health, rather than provide solutions and reform our NHS". Daisy Cooper, health spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, said "years and years of Conservative failure have brought the NHS to its knees". She said the party has "called for an emergency health budget from this new government" and "will be pushing them every step of the way". The prime minister said the report will claim the current problems come from historical factors, including "hopelessly misconceived" reforms pursued by the former Conservative Health Secretary Andrew Lansley in 2012. In particular, the report is expected to reveal increased wait times, falling vaccination rates, and other worsening health outcomes for children. The findings are expected to show:
More than 100,000 infants were left waiting for more than six hours in A&E departments in England last year
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Yeah that’s the ticket, and Morgan Fairchild is my girlfriend, yeah.
Govt’ medicine is ALWAYS broken. In the U.S. it is also UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
America wake up!!!
Get back to healthcare in the free market’s voluntary cooperation between patients and doctors - the best healthcare system in the world and what we used to have before the feds got their dirty mitts on it beginning around 1950’s & 1960’s.
It was born “broken” as the entire concept is flawed.
It can be salvaged if we kill all the white people…
At least in the UK, you can pay for private health care. In Canada you can’t do that so you have to drive (or fly) to the U.S.
Wouldn’t it be more correct to say previous governments betraying the promise of fiscal responsibility that got them elected....?
The previous government was not voted out because they were being conservative but because they just offered more of the same policies that lead to U.K. mess in the first place.
While still paying for gov't healthcare...
FUGEDDABOUDDITTT!!!
FUGEDDABOUDDITTT!!!
That's the way it goes. Gavin Newsom's kids are not attending public schools.
Socialism: THEY did it wrong. We will do it right.
Fascism: THEY did it wrong. We will do it right.
Communism: THEY did it wrong. We will do it right.
NHS?
Same old song and dance.
Yeah, the old “past governments didn’t do it right.” Idiots if they buy this crap yet again.
:: It can be salvaged if we kill all the white people… ::
Damn, forgot that one in my list.
Quotes:
Your [UK] healthcare insurance won’t usually cover private treatment for:
organ transplants
pre-existing medical conditions
normal pregnancy and childbirth costs
cosmetic surgery to improve your appearance
injuries relating to dangerous sports or arising from war or war-like hostilities
chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDs-related illnesses, diabetes, epilepsy, hypertension (high blood pressure) and related illnesses.
Pros
Specialist referrals. You can ask your GP to refer you to an expert or a specialist working privately to get a second opinion or specialist treatment.
Get the scans you want. If the NHS delays a scan, or won’t let you have one, you can use your cover to pay for it.
Reduce the waiting time. You can use your insurance to reduce the time you spend waiting for NHS treatment, if your wait time is more than six weeks.
Choose your surgeon and hospital. You can (in theory) choose a surgeon and hospital to suit your time and place, which isn’t possible on the NHS.
Get a private room. You’re more likely to get a private room, rather than stay in an open ward which might be mixed-sex.
Specialist drugs and treatments might be available. Some aren’t available on the NHS because they’re too expensive or not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in England and Wales (NICE) or the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/everyday-money/insurance/do-you-need-private-medical-insurance
Trying to do almost everything for people who do almost nothing tends to be problematical.
The cure for every leftist problem is censorship.
If they can force everybody to shut up the problem goes away like magic!
:-)
But at the same time, he's telling you to shut up about it.
I wonder if part of the problem with the NHS can be traced to the myriad ethnicities that have migrated to England over the past few decades. It’s much easier to treat patients if the population is homogenous. We have that problem too but 10-fold, which is an important reason why govt run healthcare will not work in America.
If Harris becomes the POTUS, after 8 years, I wouldn't be surprised to see if we have something similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
If Trump wins, things will continue to work for the next four years.
Also, kind of like when the Left says that immigration is “broken” or the Constitution is “dangerous”. Most of that is due to their shenanigans and lies.
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