| > what I've seen with the nhs is doctors avoiding care/exams in order to save ££ This happens in all healthcare. Depending on the insurance, and the incentives you either get loads of pointless investigations, or none. There are three main problems with the NHS: 1) culture 2) no social care, meaning the the NHS is a medium stay care home 3) not enough staff (see 1) (source, half of my friends are medical in one sort of another.) For schools, objectively English schools are performing better than ever. https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/education-rankings-by... (trying to find the specific link to the percentage improvement is hard) However, without support this isn't going to last. Private schools have the veneer of betterness because they are rich and have massive selection bias. For places like west sussex, there are an unusually high number of _shit_ private schools (the key is value added in the league tables) |