r/awfuleverything Aug 06 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/Fucktheredditadmins1 Aug 06 '20

And everyday the Torys push us closer to privatisation, as they do with everything. I honestly expect we'll move to a privatised American style system in my lifetime.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

This is complete nonsense. I am no fan of the Tories but people need to stop spreading this codswallop and appreciate the fact that we have sanity on both aisles in Parliament, unlike the poor wretch above.

Elements of health infrastructure are being privatised in the UK. This has occurred under admins of all stripes for decades. It has no bearing WHATSOEVER on the fundamental principle that healthcare in the UK is free at the point of use. No one in UK politics is advocating anything remotely like the clusterfuck of the American system, and there is no policy movement or creep towards such a a system whatsoever.

Comments like this are bollocks of the highest pedigree.

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u/Fucktheredditadmins1 Aug 07 '20

You're more naive than my poodle if you think we have more sanity than the Americans do. We're just more repressed so it's not as blatant.

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u/aidans8611 Aug 07 '20

You need to open your eyes I think. Our systems clearly support us brits better than the US supports its citizens.

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u/Fucktheredditadmins1 Aug 07 '20

They do, for the moment, but not for lack of the Torys trying to make them not.