FACT:

  • I have lived for extended periods in France, Germany and Japan.
  • All three have an insurance-based system which is affordable and highly efficient.
  • I have had treatment in all three countries which was rapid and efficient.
  • In France and Japan I have been able to see my local doctor FACE-TO-FACE at SHORT NOTICE throughout the ENTIRE COVID hysteria. READ THAT AND WEEP.

WHAT DO DO?
No British political party can propose a system comparable to those used almost everywhere else. If they did so then the sheeple would immediately bleat: “WE DON’T WANT AN AMERICAN SYSTEM HERE. WE WANT IT ALL FREE.”

But IT DOES NOT WORK. Whatever is FREE is ALWAYS abused by some. We CANNOT AFFORD a "FREE" system. WE SPEND AS MUCH AS OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES on health, but THEIR SYSTEMS WORK VERY WELL AND OURS IS A TOTAL DISASTER.

THIS is the reason for this crisis; REAL CHANGE is impossible because the NHS is a SHIBBOLETH which CAN NEVER WORK AS IT WAS SET UP, but which NOBODY has the guts to reform.

What needs to happen is this:
Whoever is in power needs to set up an all-party Royal Commission which will examine the issue exhaustively, taking evidence from all possible experts INCLUDING European doctors. The Commission will HAVE to come up with RADICAL CHANGE: simply pouring yet more billions into it WILL NOT WORK. The THEORY of “free-at-the-point-of-treatment” is fine, but the REALITY DOES NOT WORK. We live in a REAL WORLD not a THEORETICAL ONE. Anything else is just chickening out as has been done for decades and which has got us into this disaster - at which most people seem to be (AS USUAL) just shrugging their shoulders and demanding more money.




FACT:

  • I have lived for extended periods in France, Germany and Japan.
  • All three have an insurance-based system which is affordable, efficient and completely uncontentious.
  • I have had local and hospital treatment in all three countries which was rapid and efficient.
  • In France and Japan I have been able to see my local doctor FACE-TO-FACE at SHORT NOTICE throughout the ENTIRE COVID hysteria. READ THAT AND WEEP.
  • Voting for a dinosaur party is INSANE. They've had DECADES to fix this, but it just gets WORSE EVERY YEAR.

  • insane health tourism: benefits given to foreigners that NO OTHER COUNTRY in the world would give free
  • horrendous, insane and quasi-corrupt procurement costs: simple items costing MANY MULTIPLE times what they do at your local chemist's
  • a total inability to train our OWN doctors and nurses; importing them from poorer countries is IMMORAL: THEY NEED THEM THERE
  • TOO MANY MANAGERS and INEFFICIENT TOP-HEAVY management
  • as it is "free", it gets abused - almost everywhere else in the world has some kind of insurance system
  • in hoc to PFI companies for generations to come thanks to Labour under Blair
  • a complete inability to discuss the NHS rationally; the slightest mention of reform and leftard/"liberals" start foaming at the mouth
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