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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on September 07, 2024, 12:39:33 PM

Title: Is the NHS the envy of the world?
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 07, 2024, 12:39:33 PM

I don't think it is, and the treating of it as a holy relic is surely counterproductive?

Title: Re: Is the NHS the envy of the world?
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 07, 2024, 12:50:35 PM

The bit missing is "used to be".

Title: Re: Is the NHS the envy of the world?
Post by: ad_orientem on September 07, 2024, 02:31:56 PM

Quote from: Aruntraveller on September 07, 2024, 12:50:35 PM

The bit missing is "used to be".

Beat me to it.

Title: Re: Is the NHS the envy of the world?
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 07, 2024, 05:30:57 PM

Quote from: Aruntraveller on September 07, 2024, 12:50:35 PM

The bit missing is "used to be".

And not for some time. So for a Labour Minister to tout the idiocy is more about religion than realism

Title: Re: Is the NHS the envy of the world?
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 25, 2024, 11:16:47 AM

Not the envy of the world but 'broken', and even if it is going to cause problems with messaging, Streeting,  in the words of Tom Petty 'I won't back down', because as far as I can follow the analogy in the speech, he"s the 'doctor' but actual doctors know nothing.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k0449747o


It seems to me that as a member of the Labour govt, even when he disagrees completely with Milliband here, there is a worry that there is an interest in portraying the NHS as 'broken' for political reasons that are not in the interests of the NHS.