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> They can have it. It's broken anyway.

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

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The NHS hasn't been defunded. Check my other comment on this thread - NHS funding has never been cut and has risen far faster than the population size has. The collapse here wasn't a slow event anyway, it has very clearly been triggered by lockdowns/vaccines. The near closure of the health service in a failed attempt to slow the spread of an airborne virus created a backlog, forcing vaccines on the care home industry caused a lot of people to quit exacerbating an already existing bed blocker crisis, and now the ambulance services are being overwhelmed by a sudden and (officially) "unexplained" rise in callouts for heart attacks, strokes etc. What could possibly cause that I have no idea.

And the NHS isn't being privatized anyway so no clue what you're even talking about. Privatizing it might start to fix it. Good luck getting contracts that pay you by size of your patient list and not how much work you actually do, in a properly privatized system!

You need to track not just population but the amount of people who need the service. If population becomes older (which is generally the norm in a developed country) or otherwise less healthy (which may well be the case considering environment and food pollution) then even keeping the same number of people still requires the budget to be increased appropriately in order to be able to cover a given user equally well.

> The collapse here wasn't a slow event anyway, it has very clearly been triggered by lockdowns/vaccines

Absolutely fucking mental mate.

Yeah, totally mental. Me and the rest of the country, mate. The part you quoted is by far the least controversial aspect of anything I've said. In 2019 these problems weren't happening to anywhere near the same extent. Once lockdowns hit getting appointments has become drastically harder and this is widely reported.

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