Re: Whose Job is it To Make Plans Happen?
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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That's not a sensible suggestion. There is too much risk associated with delivering healthcare and too much risk in private enterprise. What would you do if a business goes bust and leaves patient without care? I'm not a fan of Bupa. Having a shiny building doesn't mean you have any better care than is delivered in the NHS. Usually it's the same doctors who work in both. Only in one private patients pay through the nose either via direct payments or insurance. The insurance industry is a scam when it comes to healthcare in the US. Inflating costs artificially - total scandal.
You really should take your rosy glasses off when it comes to private companies. You only have to look at all the big names that went bust in the high street because of their "head in the sand" strategies. It's fine to leave retail adrift in this see of mire but healthcare is far too important for the state to leave it to amateurs and charlatans looking to cream off the misery of the sick.
The big name high street failures need to be well understood. As I have mentioned previously a well planned and we'll executed bankruptcy can be very profitable. Moreover just because a retail outlet has a household name above it doesn't mean it's part of a chain, franchising plays a huge part.
As for healthcare, the UK NHS is actually quite appalling and ceased to be the envy of the world donkeys years ago. Admittedly most front line workers often bust a gut but the service provided by the NHS is mostly below many third world countries.
Private insurance? Private insurance as anything but a scam. Licencing of private insurance health insurance in Europe has safety measures in place along the same lines as ABTA but very much more inclusive and arranged such that no-one is left on a limb.
As I wrote I'm absolutely sold on the Swiss way of providing health cover, beats the hell out of our now unfit for purpose hopelessly expensive NHS.
Absolutely nothing wrong with the private sector delivering a nations health service. Of all and based on my experience it would be impossible to better the Swiss model.