@pluralistic

The underhand fraud of the insurance-based US healthcare system laid bare.

We Brits have a Labour Health Secretary (Wes Streeting) who is scarily laid back about insurance-based private healthcare.

But then they have been bankrolling him since 2015:

https://goodlawproject.org/how-private-health-has-invested-in-wes-streeting/

They’ll be wanting a return on their investment.

#SaveNHS

"Compared to other countries, the UK does not spend a particularly high proportion of its national wealth on health care, while a decade of historically low funding increases has left services facing huge pressures and a workforce crisis. Like... how much is spent on health is a political choice and politicians should be honest with the public about the standards of care they can expect with the levels of funding provided."

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/health-and-social-care-england-myths

#NHS #NHSCrisis #SaveNHS

To those who are determined to change the system, please note:

"There is little evidence that one particular ‘type’ of health care system or model of health care funding produces systematically better results than another. Countries predominantly try to achieve better health outcomes by improving their existing model of health care, rather than by adopting a radically different model."

It's ridiculous to expect first rate care on the cheap.

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/reports/nhs-compare-health-care-systems-other-countries

#NHS #NHSCrisis #SaveNHS