2aguy
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Yep...the National Health Service is on the verge of collapse.......after only 68 years of incompetence and out of control spending.....
Annals of Government Medicine
I believe this is similar to our experience with Medicare, which currently costs something like ten times as much as was projected when the law was passed.
The population is nearly a third larger than in 1948-49; we are 64 million people against the 50 million at the 1951 census, thanks not least to the last Labour government’s mass immigration policies and the EU’s refusal to let us control our borders.
Yet this population growth cannot account for such an enormous real increase in spending. The problem is that the NHS is doing things its founders never envisaged.
It also suffers from grotesque overmanning in non-medical staff, a lack of strategic planning to cope with demographic change, and many of the failures associated with the absence of an effective price mechanism.
A fundamental problem of socialized medicine, and socialism in all contexts.
Without rethinking its whole purpose and method of operation, it will, within a decade or two, simply collapse.
Whether that would be bad or good is in the eye of the beholder. The NHS has become a behemoth institution on Britain’s Left:
Annals of Government Medicine
I believe this is similar to our experience with Medicare, which currently costs something like ten times as much as was projected when the law was passed.
The population is nearly a third larger than in 1948-49; we are 64 million people against the 50 million at the 1951 census, thanks not least to the last Labour government’s mass immigration policies and the EU’s refusal to let us control our borders.
Yet this population growth cannot account for such an enormous real increase in spending. The problem is that the NHS is doing things its founders never envisaged.
It also suffers from grotesque overmanning in non-medical staff, a lack of strategic planning to cope with demographic change, and many of the failures associated with the absence of an effective price mechanism.
A fundamental problem of socialized medicine, and socialism in all contexts.
Without rethinking its whole purpose and method of operation, it will, within a decade or two, simply collapse.
Whether that would be bad or good is in the eye of the beholder. The NHS has become a behemoth institution on Britain’s Left:
