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NHS cancels the operations of 140K patients to save money.
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Oh boy. I can't wait for people who bray about public health being a failure while ignoring steady defunding over decades. I'm really sorry, my friend.
I'm very lucky to be able to get my hands on a few healing roots, stems, and leaves. My neighbor's sibling was able to acquire a needed medicine that was on private property, for me, as well as other more freely available medicinal plants, and even brewed it up into a tea so all I had to do is heat it up and drink it. If I lived in town, I would still be wrecked. But with your health conditions, so much would probably be contraindicated.
It's classical liberal method of manufacturing consent for privatisation in sensitive departments, first defund so it can't work properly then privatise when people complain it don't work properly. They do the same thing for retirements, insurances, education, transport, basically everything they can't outright sell because they fear people would protest. In especially postsocialist countries this happens all the time.
I was looking at some informal polling results locally, very underserved area, it was really disheartening seeing opinions on public vs private schooling, and the framing included-reasons keeping people from private education included expense, but funding was never mentioned for any public school related questions.
Public healthcare is only a failure in capitalist countries for this reason. Without changing the social order, publicly funded healthcare is just a temporary concession to the working class, and when they take concessions away, they always tell us they was bad for us all along and that our suffering when they end is proof of that.
Makes Juche all the more sexy (thinking about "aid" packages).