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by r00fus 1233 days ago
> Also "outsourcing the lucrative parts" - give source for your claim please.

This one indicates "unfunded mandates" - a trick the GOP in the US has done for decades (notably so-called Medicare Advantage which created a crisis that didn't exist): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/tories...

Another specific tactic is privatizing things that didn't need privatization (or the result is less efficient than what existed before, but it happened to make some corporations and ministers/secretaries a lot of money) - see "failed efficiency savings and privatization" here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-crisis-rishi-sunak-cons...

Of course, Brexit (another Tory gift to their owners) really messed up things for NHS and caused a number of challenges (see above).