Indeed. As a Yank who always has to pay for healthcare anyway, it’s easy to see the parallels in labor/employment, civil rights, and financial security: We’re facing a global regressive movement from the political right, and those people have no scruples. They absolutely want to claw back every single gain the general public has made in rights and benefits over the last 75 years, and making benefits unpopular is the first step to privatizing them.
Never forget the NHS, warts and all, is a thing that we Americans would die to have, and for want of it many of us too often literally do.
Jaysyn@kbin.social 4 months ago
FYI, an anecdote for anyone in the UK that is leaning towards abolishing your NHS.
I had an appendectomy last year, you know, a surgery that something like 40% of the population will need at some point in their lifetime.
It cost me $7000, with "decent" insurance.
The final bill pre-insurance was a smidge under $170.000.
You guys need to burn the Tories down before do get the same.
Pronell@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I work for UHC.
I think they’re a decent company, considering the industry.
I’ve made a nice and fairly comfortable career here.
Burn it all down. Give everyone healthcare.
I’ll find another job.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My girlfriend works for a private company instead of the NHS and she hates it on a moral level, too, but it’s impossible to work for the NHS and keep your sanity. Be it the working conditions, hours, or pay. It’s a shambles and it’s all because we - the stupid public - continue to be suckered into believing it’s good for us.
Not to mention that the left is fractured. We all want progress, but can’t decide on exactly what progress should look like. Meanwhile conservatives only have 1 real option: Tories.
I’m convinced at BEST we’re going to have another hung parliament with the bastards ultimately staying in power.
This country is fucked.
EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Fortunately that’s a vanishingly small number of people in the UK, the NHS has almost universal support.
Jaysyn@kbin.social 4 months ago
That's good to hear. Now kick the Tories out & fund it properly.
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 months ago
It’s so fucked up because not only are these assholes ruining another countries healthcare, they also are giving ammunition to our shithole country to never implement a universal healthcare system…
EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Which assholes are you talking about?
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Conservative” thieves, worldwide.
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 months ago
The ones in the UK government trying to ruin the healthcare system so they can make a privatized system more “appealing.”