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"Healthcare lines" as people in the UK horde to opening day at a new NHS dentist for the scant few places available (hexbear.net)
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls

"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."

Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.

This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

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[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 78 points 7 months ago

This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

Only as a justification for privatisation.

[-] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 46 points 7 months ago

American healthcare is coming to the UK

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

Shortening the lines by making the healthcare unaffordable think-about-it

[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 57 points 7 months ago

Good thing they're expending tens of millions on round the clock care for a living fossil. He's just divinely more entitled to Healthcare.

[-] yuli@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

biden got to reek of formaldehyde by now

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago

A classic for the Victims of Capitalism memorial museum

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago

maw Oi, you got a loicense for those luxury bones, mate?

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 7 months ago

Never understood the breadlines bit. In western countries we don't bother to feed our poor, we let them starve on the street. No actually, we bleach our food to prevent the poor from eating our waste for free.

Imagine rationing your food and SHARING it?? Couldn't happen here.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

Sometimes over here in Algeria we have food shortages and food rations get enforced by the gendarme, and that included bread for a while (start of the Ukraine war), and I personally have been in literal so called "breadlines" I don't know how similar or different they are here compared to the USSR, but I don't understand the whole propaganda point either??? like it feels no different than waiting inline in the super market it's just that you can't buy a gazillion breadsticks, but hey thanks to the guy before you not being allowed to buy a gazillion breadsticks you actually bring back home breadsticks.

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

In America you'd have patriots storming the place to hoard months worth of bread for their bunker, where they'll shoot anyone that approaches.

When covid started there were regular shortages at supermarkets because of people buying supplies in bulk. Stores put limits on how much toilet paper and stuff you could buy at once so Americans predictably cried about authoritarianism China USSR 1984. Also some people made a business out of scalping toiletries, selling TP for like fifty bucks per roll. We let the free market take care of things here. 🦅🧻

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

I did stand in those infamous lines in 80's Poland and while it did sucked, it still beats the hell of not getting anything because being poor or because the fist two people bought all of whatever you wanted.

Also those weren't the bread lines, bread was available. Hell, now i have to sign the list in store and order bread in advance because they only bake as much as needed and it's often impossible to buy bread in local store after the morning pass.

[-] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

AFAIK, most of those bread line pictures are from the late 80s and early 90s. The bread lines were a result of the reintroduction of capitalism. Once again, every accusation is a confession.

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

the good old "starve the beast" strategy, but in this case starving the beast is honestly humane for the beast considering the kind of food it would get in the UK

[-] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

And all of you tankies still want socialism?? SMH my head

[-] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

Nah, they'll just blame it on the immigrants ez

[-] italktothewind@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

quite a few poc in this picture, post this anywhere online where white British so-called "people" can see it and see how much pure unfiltered racism you get in your replies 😵‍💫

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 7 months ago

It'll be both

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Knowing TERF island, they'll also find some way to blame trans people too.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In Soviet Badcountry, resources and healthcare are so scarce that desperate people line up around the block in the hopes of seeing the one dentist.

[-] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 30 points 7 months ago

I keep remembering I need to sign up for the dentist, guess there is no point then

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

Another good reason for Scotland's independence. Let England Americanize all they want, but not Scotland.

It'll be hilarious seeing some idiots be shocked that they have to fork over 100k pounds for having a kid, despite that being EXACTLY what they told Parliament what they wanted.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

Agreed. Fewer delays on the breakdown of the union pls

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Wale, Scotland, Ireland should leave from the United Kingdom to form united republics

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Scotland had a chance to gain by ballot what most countries have had to gain through the blood of their people and they pissed it away. Now things are going to have to get really fucked up before they get another chance at the same.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago

To be fair they were straight up lied to by Brits about brexit and their referendum, but then again, while all people should assume that Brit state is lying every time, this goes doubly for Scotland.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

This is clearly the fault of the radical left.

Why would communism do this?! boohoo

[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago

Proles in the U.S. be like: "First time?"

Across England, 83% of dental surgeries were refusing to accept adults as patients seeking NHS care

This sounds like the class discrimination that comes with U.S. states' medicare programs. A state here never has enough funding to meet the high financial cost of many medical practitioner fiefdoms, so the poor and most needy get de-prioritized and kicked to the curb. Waiting times for care are long and few places will take such patients, in addition to giving only the bare minimum of material assistance (i.e. the cheapest "get them out the door" fix for their ailments). Story as old as time under privatized capitalist healthcare regimes.

“Further measures to improve access and increase the number of NHS dentists through our dental recovery plan will be set out shortly.”

access

Being a citizen of Burgerland I twitch reflexively when I see that in healthcare discussion.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

Yep, that sounds like how it is here more and more nowadays.

Sadly, I do remember ~15 years ago when everyone could actually rely on decent public healthcare from the NHS.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Prediction: heart related death/disease will start to increase in the near future

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

get a load of the Communist UK frothingfash

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