An actual good pick

[Rubbishplayer]

I didn't say that that though.

I said that the Tories were taking steps to remove public healthcare options.

Austerity is ALSO a issue. But I was taking issue with you saying that right wing governments in the UK wouldn't abolish free healthcare, and it factually has been for lots of people as a matter of intentionally not providing services (waitlists designed for people not to see the end), which is a separate thing to austerity.

Because austerity and not paying staff and offering better wages to agencies to fill shifts with staff that already work on the same wards and working junior doctors to death and raising university fees and tax structures that cause older doctors to retire early and on and on and on and...

Ah, that was less than clear from your prior posts. I think we're more on the same page than you think.

Context is everything: I was making the point that, in contrast to the USA, I know of no right-wing parties have abolishing the NHS in their manifesto and, as I said previously, if you know differently, please correct me. But that's not the same as saying that the last conservative government hasn't done vast damage to it.

But again, the NHS has no such policy. Indeed, the new IHCS approach trusts are taking is trying to do far more - through preventative interventions, informed by AI applied to NHS patient data - with the same money.

As for current government policy, I'm cautiously optimistic they at least understand how to solve the issue and have the intent to do so, even if there isn't a money tree to pay for it yet.

 

[BlackMastodon]

ThE SoCiAlIsM!

 

[Moongrum]

ThE SoCiAlIsM!

but the taxes!