Yet. She's called a General Election while the only other party with a genuine chance of gaining seats are on its knees. Her party will win by a landslide this June.
I would rather be slaughtered than vote for Conservative, but I have to say, the NHS is already dead.
1. My nephew is 15 months old, sick and has to take tablet form which is almost impossible. The liquid one is beyond the budget.
2. My mum is having big problems with her knee due to arthritis, it has been going on for 4 years, and all they do is treat the pain. So now she is on boxes of Tramadol, and this is creating all kinds of new problems.
3. My father in law has a poor heart and he has medication but what they have given him creates a list of side effects so long that he visits the GP atleast once a week. If he cuts himself, he is in Hospital. However, there are alternatives, but beyond the budget to be prescribed to him.
This is my only experiences with the NHS and I don't think it is fit for purpose.
The desire of the common person to scream "PROTECT OUR NHS" is feeding into the problems. Now they are even paying Recruitment Agencies huge sums of money to find people remotely qualified, and they are absolutely raking in the cash (I know someone off to Miami with work in August as a perk holiday for working the NHS account).
> Now they are even paying Recruitment Agencies huge sums of money to find people remotely qualified, and they are absolutely raking in the cash
Now you know why the elite invested their own money into Brexit - Brexit is not just a pet ideology, it is an opportunity to make boatloads of money through privatization. While promoting a nationalist agenda, these well-heeled globalist gentleman will relocate to Monaco, Bahamas or some other sunny island at the first signs of Brexit failing. They will probably do so anyway even if it is a success.
This is the "starve the beast" strategy of the right. Defund a service until it's bad, then use the fact that it's bad to justify reductions in funding. Rinse and repeat.
This is my only experiences with the NHS and I don't think it is fit for purpose.
The answer to all your gripes above is to stop starving the NHS of funds in a climate where it has to take care of more and more elderly people, and simply increase funding - we spend significantly less on healthcare than other developed nations.
The gameplan is this:
1. Starve the NHS of funds for years
2. Create false crises by continually setting unrealistic budgets, putting hospitals in 'special measures', cutting GP funding etc.
3. Enforce longer waiting times, poorer service, and low morale by funding management and private partnerships but cutting front line pay.
4. Ditch the NHS, since it clearly isn't fit for purpose (nice sound-byte)
5. Make people pay for insurance to pay the private providers - and we get Trumpcare
Astoundingly, this seems to work, as evidenced by your post.
The NHS wasn't in this state in 2010 before Andrew Lansley got his hands on it. Maybe the problem lies with those who are managing it (somehow currently the imbecile fall-guy Jeremy Hunt...)
On top of that, stats like your first one are easily skewed because people in the US don't even get necessary surgeries because they can't afford it, so of course the NHS is going to have a higher rate of death afterwards!
You mean the ex culture secretary? With no experience of healthcare, finance, or anything else that the job entails? Crazy. The only thing more ridiculous is having a Chancellor with no real world business or financial experience who is known to dodge tax... oh... and now Editors a Newspaper.
I'll bite: across the population as a whole, the UK has much better health outcomes than the US despite spending a lot less money on healthcare. Of course, we should be spending more money, and then I expect we'd equal or even beat the US at the top too, because too much healthcare is also a bad thing, and with private healthcare that's what rich people get.
I don't know about that. May is socially conservative, not economically conservative. She believes in society - specifically, something resembling the society of the 50s.
The country is in a strange place, and getting stranger by the day.
RIP NHS.