@dyckron

This is exactly what happens when healthcare gets treated like a commodity instead of a proper public service. The report on Scotland’s health system shows that when you pump money into strong public hospitals instead of flogging it off to for profit clinics, you get better results and less inequality. Scotland put the focus on building capacity, training staff, keeping care in house, and giving it out based on need, not how fat your wallet is.
Meanwhile in England, and in places letting privatisation run riot, we’re seeing massive wait times, a two tier setup where the rich skip the queue, and battlers left in the lurch.
If we want a fair dinkum, more efficient health system here in Australia, we’d better listen up: bulk up our public hospitals, stop pouring taxpayer dollars into private profit machines, and treat healthcare as a right, not a bloody privilege.

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