The injury doesn't seem to be healing and I'm getting worried. It's not an emergency but the sort of thing that maybe can fester and get worse. They're starting to talk about going private but it seems everyone talks about that now so I'm not sure it's so easy.
"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
And the NHS isn't being privatized anyway so no clue what you're even talking about. Privatizing it might start to fix it. Good luck getting contracts that pay you by size of your patient list and not how much work you actually do, in a properly privatized system!
The main problem is the lack of doctors, sure we import plenty of them. I wont even get into how we basically import almost what seems like slave labour. also no one wants to spend 15-20 years of their life for little returns, the easy answer is to increase the number of medical colleges, reduce the number of years to train by creating more specialisations.
apart from a few delicate surgeries, majority of the procedures are learnt with a year or two of training post your foundation level medical school, lot of specialisations can be automated away, Radiologists are probably the first to disappear.
Oh, and anyone who has actually had to use the NHS, or perhaps had a relative use it, particularly at the end of their lives, will have been very quickly disavowed of the idea that it is “world class”. This is not to say a US model is desirable (the US has the worst combination of various constituent practices/rules/structures) but other models are possible. The Dutch for one.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
NHS budget grew in the same period 53%
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...
Even if you ignore the massive injection for COVID it grew 39%. The NHS has far more money per pop than ever before in its history yet it cannot meet even the most basic expectations that a third world country would have, like people actually being seen by a doctor in a timely manner if they collapse on the street and an ambulance is called out. Let alone less urgent stuff.
That's why the idea Palantir or any company would ever want to "steal the NHS" is delusional. The NHS is a bottomless bonfire of money, it's the USSR in healthcare form and works just as well. The more money it gets the more dysfunctional and broken it becomes. Nobody in their right mind would want to steal such a worthless thing.
Thiel is really smart. He always talk about the right to online privacy [1] and especially his own, because his gay, living in NZ, etc. But his actions and the actions of his companies tells a totally different story. Explanation: When it comes to money vs. privacy, money always wins.
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/peter-thiel-the-o...
Oh, and his company was denied consent to build your usual "rich guy house with a view".
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/billionaire-peter-thiels-plans...
