Y’all Brits will be majorly fucked if this gets through. Hang on to your NHS with everything you can. Healthcare in the US is a nightmare. We are scared to go to the doctor so we don’t go bankrupt. Some people choose death over medical bills.
Streeting is the sort of person you wouldn’t have in your cabinet unless he represented your genuine beliefs and you need an outrider. He’s the Jacob Reese Mogg of Starmer’s Labour party.
Surely this will revitalise the economy, once the health sector has been fully privatised… because you’ll be paying 10x more.
I’m no fan of Wes Streeting, but the Canary is trash and is doing its usual of selectively quoting.
We will go further than New Labour ever did. I want the NHS to form partnerships with the private sector that goes beyond just hospitals. Here’s one example. High street opticians have the staff and equipment to provide basic tests. Meanwhile 220,000 patients have been waiting more than 18 weeks for eye care. Specsavers have welcomed Labour’s plan to use high street opticians to cut waiting lists, saying they stand ready to help.
Personally I’m not enormously bothered about high street opticians taking NHS appointments (within their competency). This is essentially the same model that GPs and dentists already follow (and always have done).
There’s plenty to be guarded about, but let’s not catastrophise based on half-quoted electioneering material.
no kidding. streeting is literally being paid by the healthcare and insurance industry to do that.
it’s why i don’t want starmer’s labour to lose; i want them to be crushed and fail hard.
Ah yes, because another five years of the Conservative Party is just what the country needs. Spoken like a true leftist.
laughs nervously in American