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International Apes: What Does Your Country Do That's Equally As Stupid? ("Developed" is subjective w/ anywhere from 30-65 that are typically counted) (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How long until we tackle the various conflicts of interest throughout our medical, financial, and legal systems?

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago

Dont worry. Canada is fast tracking its way to deleting its free health care.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Same with the UK

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Wtf why

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Because the Conservative party has been in power for over a decade.

The NHS is a relatively large expense for the taxpayer so it upsets the "MORE TAX BAD" crowd and the poor exploitation opportunities inherent in a newly private healthcare sector excite the rich arsehole that are likely to be Conservative party donors.

I don't think it's a risk in the short term because it would be general election suicide but it's been boiling away under the surface the entire time.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The strategy is very similar to enshittification: just keep cutting as much as you can, and propping up private alternatives (and paying those with public funds to "help out" the publicly owned institutions you've been under-funding). Never ever keep the public wages competitive, or the staff levels reasonable. Deny every advancement that would make working for the good of the public the reasonable choice.

Keep robbing from the public coffers and giving the contracts to profit driven companies like that for a generation or two, and wouldn't you know it? The public system is in shambles, and barely worth paying for! May as well not bother with it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

PS. it's annoying but it's worth the struggle. It just sucks that it has to be a struggle.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Tories

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well look at US, there is insane amount of money to be made if you ignore the wellbeing of your citizens.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Idiots.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Healtxit

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Australia's not far behind

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Same in France

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