I don’t know much about the UK. Is there a doctor shortage there?
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SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
UK here. Can they do the maths for us too please?. Just a few billion would let us employ a few thousand more doctors… That’d be awesome…Thx.
ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
From the UK, the NHS is in a pretty bad state. Long wait times, overworked and underfunded doctors to the point some of them are moving for better pay overseas, possible management issues (anecdotal, read on Reddit years ago) are to name a few. While not unique to it, there’s a certain pride to the NHS being a success for socialised healthcare so to see it in the state it’s in can be extremely frustrating especially as someone living in the UK.
cynar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The NHS’s problems are by design, rather than inherent. There would be a lot of money to be made by converting us to a private health system, like America. Unfortunately, a lot of the people who could make that money are friends and/or backers of the Tories.
Their plan is to starve the NHS until it collapses. They can then step in with solutions to fix it (and be hailed as heroes). Unfortunately for them, the staff of the NHS are… stubborn. They are holding the NHS together despite the attempts to kill it.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
That implies the doctors would actually be seeing any of that.
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unfortunately, it turns out that, in retrospect, the billions did not quite have the desired effect and the health system is just as fucked as it was before, but - unrelated: have you seen my new yachts? They’re even bigger than those of my cronies!