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That is why capitalism is fundamentally stupid. It rewards the slimiest, not the best.
The NHS is not capitalist, it's a centralised government managed health system.
Capitalism doesn't have much to do with this at all. Like others have said, the NHS is a state run organization. If you want to turn this into a political issue (it really isn't, and isn't appropriate given the context) you should be criticizing the state and inneffective, malicious hierarchical power structures
Just goes to show you that any system can be subverted, however, in the capitalist system the subversion is often profitable with minimal consequences for the recipients of the profits. Yay, capitalism (/s).
Mate if you want to moan about capitalism in healthcare go and find an American community on Lemmy.
It's still capitalism's fault even though I have no idea how
They needed to maintain their reputation in order to keep their jobs and stay on this hamster wheel?
Sure, no one has ever seen a communist system be subverted and used for personal gain ๐
So - who profited in case? Or are you just riding your hobbyhorse into the middle of an unrelated story
Keep telling yourself that while it's slowly dismantled for profits.
France has the best health system in Europe with a mix of public and private providers.
This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.
And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am not suggesting that's a bad thing.
and why is it being dismantled? To replace it with a for-profit system...
Is it using capitalist business practices internally?
Please tell me what you mean by "capitalist business practices".
"Ignoring warnings" is not a character flaw unique to "capitalists".
It really isn't this is the similar to say state run nuclear plants...face saving.
I fully.support the NHS method as think it good value (if not starved of funding). But have to admit all systems can have flaws.
What are you talking about?
Why would America do this?