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yeah people i talk to don't seem to get what's coming. like, they haven't had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they've never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it's for every service.
me personally? i'm saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i'm going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! ๐
but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:
one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.
bit of a tangent i know, but...
rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they've instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.
don't even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics ๐ฉ