Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "NHS crisis: ‘500 could be dying every week due to emergency care delays’" video.

@wakey87 what does it matter to you? You aren't British. Btw Labour did. respect the Brexit vote in the 2017 election. Did you support them then?
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It's very good at enriching those who are already rich and powerful. Does that count?
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@JamesBrown-wt5nx Right. I think the whole way we organise who gets paid what for their labour is seriously broken in a capitalist economy obsessed with GDP growth. The value of the domestic work that is necessary for a decent functioning society is almost totally ignored and devalued, mainly because it doesn't make money for corporations.
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@D-A-A- nurses have degrees, student debt and they make life and death decisions and literally save lives. Plus they work incredibly hard. The U.K. pays them less than most European countries. £34k for that work is the bare minimum.
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@JamesBrown-wt5nx Do you think people working all hours to keep food on the table have a spare room and the wherewithal to look after an elderly relative?!? This isn't the 1960s when a family could live on the income from one person working.
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@melb5996 they have to because they do so much work that doctors used to do. So if you want them to stop getting degrees, you will have to hire tens of thousands more doctors instead.
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@D-A-A- I absolutely do think carers should get a very big raise. My niece was one for 10 years. The pay is a pittance considering the value of the work they do, and how hard it can be. I remember hoping during COVID that we might come out of that trauma realising collectively that "the market" pays people like carers and nurses much too little, while it pays people like bankers and consultants FAR to much. But of course, the government are neoliberal capitalist psychos who think that the market always knows best, so they decided to give nurses a real terms pay cut as a reward for their heroic work. God, I hate this government....
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@xsentfromuk8938 unfortunately it's not that simple. The people you are talking about can't look after themselves. They need care. This happened to my mother in law. She has dementia which deteriorated very quickly while she was in hospital after falling down the stairs. If she has been sent home, I doubt she would have been able to even buy food and keep the house warm for long. As per your other comment the cars system is a mess as well. I my niece is an administrator at a care home after working as a carer for 10 years. The whole system is horribly underfunded, and it's increasingly owned by private equity companies who just want to sweat the system for profit. They buy up good homes, then reduce staff, reduce service and take the savings as profits. It's pure predatory capitalism. The system should not be a profit centre for capitalists. It needs to be nationalised as we did with the rest of healthcare after WW2. Even now, it's still the most reliable way to make sure the system is available to all and paid for by those who can most afford it.
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@unionjackjackson4352 yes they definitely did. It was Starmer who made them reverse their position and offer a second referendum in 2019. Which is when they lost all the red wall seats.
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@wakey87 Ok, you spell "labour" like an American but I'll let you off 😛 Seriously though, do you think Labour would have been any worse than this sht show? They would have executed Brexit. They would have raised taxes on the rich and funded the NHS, schools, police etc. They would have nationalised the railways (avoiding the collapse in service) and nationalised water (avoiding the massive dumping of sewage into rivers and beaches), etc. Instead we have basically everything broken, including the economy AND record taxes on working people.
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To the Tories, the NHS just represents a huge missed opportunity for their corporate backers to make billions in profit every year. Their strategy is clear. They have talked about it for years. Cripple the system by underfunding if and making it unmanageable due to all the market bureaucracy, then declare that the only way to fix it is to privatise it. It's a well-worn strategy of neoliberal capitalists.
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Yes. But also the privatisation that started under the Blair government. The Tories put that on steroids and now the system wastes a record amount in internal market bureaucracy. Plus the system is much worse value for money because there is so much more profit-seeking private provision. Think all the agency staff, the private clinics for diagnostics, the ridiculous sums spent on management consulting etc. The system is covered in private parasites making it more costly and less efficient.
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