• tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Is this the UK? As (company) private schemes in the UK allow you to jump the queue, pushing people who cant or wont pay further back down the queue.

    Its also significantly cheaper than the actual cost of a fully privatised solution because its subsidised by the NHS.

    Majority of Doctors and Nurses who do private work spend the bulk of their working week for the NHS, and a large percentage of them were trained by the NHS.

    Do I blame people who go private because they do not want to wait? No, but its also not a good argument for further privatisation as further expansion of this system reduces capacity of the NHS.

    • LKPU26@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Yes, UK.

      I’m against further privatisation as the competition it was meant to create just led to inefficiency. Example: public health providers now hire sales staff to win them contacts. Also data sharing became difficult between areas.