Most of us weren't alive when the NHS was born in July 1948. However, when it dies, at the hands of neoliberalism, we will be at its bedside. Assisted suicide for public healthcare in Britain and Canada has already begun. Governments have starved it of funding which has created inhumane wait times for consults with specialists. Treatment and surgeries for life threatening illnesses are delayed and screening for diseases haphazard. So desperate people complain less when privatisation is offered as a remedy to ease the healthcare burden. Capitalism is famous for creating a crisis to profit it from it later.
I don't understand how healthcare works in the UK or Canada, but here in the US the same thing is happening. I was just on a zoom call with my housing authority the other day. Our special guest was a woman from Medicaid, our socialized medical provider for the poor. She was telling us how great it was that the state of Texas had privatized it's Medicade program. Now the two largest healthcare companies in the US will "manage" the states social medical program. Those of us who were hoodwinked into joining their phony Medicare Advantage programs know this means more rejection of claims and nonpayment of benefits. It was a claim was made to Medicade it was paid and that was the end of it. NOW claims are being "managed". We all know this means our social medical program has been privatized. Tax payer money is now going to these giant conglomerate companies to be stolen and repurposed to purchase yachts and mansions. I know our state representatives are laughing their asses off all the way to the bank. This is what's happening to our social services here in the US. The money that supports them is being stolen by private interests. It's not a matter of waiting on an election, it's happening NOW! With no limits on corporate donations to politicians corporations are slowly enriching the 1% and enslaving the other 99%.
I don't understand how healthcare works in the UK or Canada, but here in the US the same thing is happening. I was just on a zoom call with my housing authority the other day. Our special guest was a woman from Medicaid, our socialized medical provider for the poor. She was telling us how great it was that the state of Texas had privatized it's Medicade program. Now the two largest healthcare companies in the US will "manage" the states social medical program. Those of us who were hoodwinked into joining their phony Medicare Advantage programs know this means more rejection of claims and nonpayment of benefits. It was a claim was made to Medicade it was paid and that was the end of it. NOW claims are being "managed". We all know this means our social medical program has been privatized. Tax payer money is now going to these giant conglomerate companies to be stolen and repurposed to purchase yachts and mansions. I know our state representatives are laughing their asses off all the way to the bank. This is what's happening to our social services here in the US. The money that supports them is being stolen by private interests. It's not a matter of waiting on an election, it's happening NOW! With no limits on corporate donations to politicians corporations are slowly enriching the 1% and enslaving the other 99%.
You tell it like it is, and it's dire right now