The NHS, so that is the organisation with this track record ...
1. Routinely starves and dehydrates to death 2 elderly and vulnerable people every day.
2. Has a budget of £4 billion in legal costs and £83 billion in negligence claims compensation ...
That's more than half a years turnover of the NHS provided for as negligent.
3. Is Blighty's biggest super-spreader of Covid, where 25% of hospital admissions for Covid acquired it in hospital.
4. Has just contributed to the massacre of 70,000 Brits in excess deaths, 60,000 of which occured in the three months of the first wave of Covid, 3 times the rate the Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe managed in any three month period in WWII.
Meanwhile, Norway's excess deaths fell during the same three month period, so much so the only industry Norway had to bail out was the funeral directors because not enough people were dying ...
5. Has 1.4 million staff, the 5th largest employer in the world after McDonald's, Walmart, the US DOD, and the Chinese Army, yet still doesn't have enough doctors and nurses. So Brits wait weeks to see a GP, months to see a consultant, and years to have an operation, and the Nightingale hospitals have to be dismantled because there are no doctors and nurses ...
Well, now we are told this collectivist, socialist, state treasure doesn't have enough workforce to administer the vaccines ...
When, oh when, will Blighty yield up a pol, just one pol, who's honest and courageous enough to tell the Brits the emperor has no clothes? That the NHS is broken by design, and failed in practice?
A mini-Auschwitz operating in plain view, like the BBC, another state failure, harbouring the celebrity paedophile Jimmy Saville in plain view for three decades.
How long must we wait and suffer?
SoD
Good luck finding a "pollie" with the guts to point out the Emperor has no clothes.
Bureaucracies that large are almost indestructible as there are too many in it with a strong sense of self preservation and to hell with the greater good
Posted by: AussieD | Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 10:31
1.4 million people, and the NHS needs an army of volunteers, the actual army, and now the logistics operation of Tesco's to get the vaccine out! ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/12/30/tesco-offers-help-roll-out-oxford-vaccine/
Tesco has offered to help ministers roll out coronavirus vaccines as the private sector throws its weight behind the biggest immunisation programme in British history.
The supermarket’s subsidiary Best Food Logistics is understood to have offered up its network of refrigerated lorries and warehouses as part of a race to give the newly authorised Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine to millions of people by April.
And OzD is right, in time this whole atrocity will be swept under the carpet by the MSM and state education system, the bureaucracies of lies, "Nothing to see here".
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 11:46
"in time this whole atrocity will be swept under the carpet by the MSM and state education system, the bureaucracies of lies..."
Think of the MSM-yours and ours as TASS News Agency. What goes round...
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 11:57
Well, some support arrives, Jeremy Warner has got a buddy at the DT: Matthew Lynn. So that's 2 against the army of blue socialists dominating the right in Blighty these days ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/30/dont-leave-vaccine-roll-out-lumbering-nhs/
It might take five, 10 or even 15 years. When the novel coronavirus was first identified, most of the experts told us it would take a decade to find a vaccine, if it was possible at all. As it turned out, Big Pharma, the scourge of the aid industry and a familiar villain from endless John le Carré novels, has rescued us. We have not one, but three working vaccines, with two approved for use in the UK. Even better, the British shot, a collaboration between Oxford University and AstraZeneca, is cheap, relatively easy to make and will be sold at cost. It is a triumph for the restless, energetic, can-do spirit of capitalism which could be taken straight from the pages of one of Ayn Rand’s hymns to free enterprise.
Phwoorr, even managed to squeeze Ayn Rand in there!
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 12:15
Ah, the struggle of Man against authority!
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 12:24
The UK does not have a totally government controlled health care system. It's a hybrid system like all other countries' with universal coverage, and in most it works well. If only the American far left knew better:
"Take the facts first. The United States spends almost 15% of gross domestic product on health care compared with less than 8% in the United Kingdom. Population health as measured by infant mortality and life expectancy are broadly comparable in the two countries and lag behind those achieved in high performing systems like Japan and Sweden. Although the majority of the public in both the United Kingdom and United States express dissatisfaction with their healthcare systems, a higher proportion of the British population think their system works well, and a lower proportion believe the system needs to be rebuilt completely, than in the United States.
Around 45 million Americans under the age of 65 lack health insurance cover, and far more US citizens than UK citizens report that the cost of health care is a barrier to access. In a five nation survey that included Britain and the United States, Britain performed best in offering health care that was equitable, even though waiting times for treatment were the longest."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC554041/
In some ways you're far ahead of us. The impulse to burn something down instead of improving it misses the point entirely. And you're going to have to make further adjustments next year because of Brexit, which was itself based on a "burn it all down" approach. Anyone who mentions Ayn Rand stories as a positive example isn't playing with a full deck.
Posted by: Bob | Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 16:07
The NHS like most of the big Charities ,is being run for the benefit of those running it.Any good that comes out of the organisation is merely coincidental.
Posted by: johnd2008 | Friday, 01 January 2021 at 02:18
Bob, the US healthcare "market" is no such thing. It's a cartel stitch-up, reminiscent of the NHS itself. Any one of these will suffice ...
US health market stitch-up
If the US was to collectivize that cartel operation into the state you'd be setting yourselves up for the full NHS stitch-up.
Regarding Blighty "not burning it down but improving it": generations of pols have tried doing that since 1948 when the NHS was invented. It has only ever degraded as all monopolies do, private or public.
The only way forward for Blighty's healthcare is a competitive, open to globalisation, independent sector only, healthcare market on the supply side, and 65 million customers with £2500 each per annum in social buying power to go to that market on the demand side.
"Open to globalisation" means passporting rules, like the EU Single Market, should be allowed unilaterally by Blighty to permit all first world healthcare providers to setup shop in Blighty using their own rules and regulations. Obviously there should be no tariffs or quotas. The Mergers and Monopolies Commission should be put on steroids to split any monopolies or cartels. Not fines, actual splitting of the operations and equity into multiple operations and equity units. This is not expropriation: if I take a ten dollar note from your wallet but give you ten dollar coins in your purse I haven't robbed you, I've merely given you change.
Give it ten years and Blighty would be the healthcare capital of the world, like it is (soon to be was if BoJo doesn't sort a services deal with passporting and equivalence rules with the EU) for finance.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 01 January 2021 at 09:00
SoD,
Exactly. The US Healthcare system is a cartel of corporations supported by our corporatist ideologues. How do "the people" have any control over them without government?
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 01 January 2021 at 18:25
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/covid-bed-check.php
Yo Loz,
Scroll just abit on this relatively brief post comparing how the Guardian has been describing your [Great Britain] 'healthcare situation' for at least the past decade.
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 02 January 2021 at 21:03