Comment on Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why

• purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Doesn’t help that the Tories were “stressing” the NHS for years, which makes it harder for things to get back on track.

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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Private health companies often use the same facilities and stuff as public health. It ends up basically paying to jump the queue. Also the private health companies take the low risk, glamorous stuff and leave the complex, high risk, unglamorous stuff to public health.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

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• lost@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, but having to wait four years because you are poor doesn’t sound fair to me.

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• LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh I completely agree. Private and public funding options should be working in harmony, but private must be prevented from overreaching into the public sector

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