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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The NHS is broken because of Socialized medicine ,the demands made upon it and the waste of resources.
The only way to do that and lower health care costs is to use the Anti-Trust on the Insurance Companies and Health Care Companies along with RICO. Congress not needed.
Inherent flaws of the NHS aside, and fwiw Palantir figured out how to make it almost economical...the entire infrastructure is overwhelmed by immigration. Inbred Paki babies account for 1/3 of child genetic disorders. There were likely zero cases of sickle-cell before Africans came in numbers. A homogeneous population has a narrower range of disease profiles to be treated.
You forgot to list an absence of dental care. I have yet to see a Brit with good teeth.
And nothing to do with millions of turd world imports living on welfare.
That was part of the reason why “Socialism” worked in Sweden at one point, back when Sweden was still 99.9% Swedish.
Although high taxes doesn’t necessarily make it “socialism”, as companies in Sweden were still private for the most part.
You're not allowed to say that in the UK!
The NHS was always going to crash and burn because when something is “free” the demand for it will increase to infinity.
Third world-itis just smashed the foot on the accelerator.
1st step - get the feds OUT of healthcare.
The rest is relatively easy.
As with most things, the greatest political/social problem in America is the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t - by far the greatest threat to our lives and wellbeing.
Ah yes, the ol’ Obama blame my predecessor excuse. Barack used it for about 7 years of his 8 year presidency I think. I remember thinking how petty and self-serving that was. Problem is that his voters are petty and self-serving so this tripe goes over well. Ah, remember when we had a media capable of honest, critical thinking. I blame the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. The adulation of the dim-witted libs just infatuated the journalism professors into rhapsodic pusillanimity.
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My gut feeling is that Starmer and his Humpty Dumpty party meets a crazy, unexpected end that nearly collapses both the British government and the royal family.
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