For all the people that hate capitalism and think socialism/communism is a good thing – I hope you realize that will include a single payer healthcare system which not only leaves people with a lot less options and a poorer quality of care overall, but it will actually be the direct cause of the deaths of sick, innocent people including children.
Look at Alfie Evans – a 2 year old British boy that died due to the British courts ruling he should be taken off life support against his parent’s will despite the fact that according to his parents anyways, he was improving. Whether or not he actually was is not the point. The point is that by giving the government the power to choose what kind of healthcare we receive, they also get to choose what care we don’t receive which can and has and will lead to the deaths of unwilling individuals.
Is that what you really want? Because that’s what you’ll get.
hi, nhs worker here and resident of liverpool, where alfie evans was receiving his care. first of all, i’m not debating whether or not alfie should have been taken off life support – he was declared brain dead. i don’t know his clinical history or treatment details and neither do you.
next, simply stating ‘the government decided this’ is oversimplification of a long and complicated matter. alfie evans received months of neurological treatment with the intention of improving his condition – treatment that was free thanks to socialised medicene, by the way – and at a certain point when a patient is not responding to treatment it is then asked if the family want to continue. whether or not a patient is responsive is not a result of how the treatment was funded, and simply slamming the treatment provided as ‘poor quality’ is insulting to the doctors and staff of alder hey hospital who worked to save him (a fantastic pediatric hospital, for the record.)
let me explain to you how it goes inside the nhs. we have targets that we do everything we can to meet, when we have a high turnaround of healthy, happy patients then we are praised. if the rip rate is high, there is a serious problem. for example, i work in a cancer hospital and we must treat patients within certain time frames, if we cannot for any reason then the system is reevaluated to see what we can improve. these targets are put in place by the healthcare authority (nhs england) to make sure every patient is cared for quickly. do i support my country’s government? hell no. we’re under the tories at the moment and they are notorious for slashing our funding whilst lining their own pockets, the same mindset of healthcare ceo’s who will charge americans through the nose for their healthcare whilst sitting on a pile of cash, yelling at you how evil socialised medicene is.
the sooner we vote the tories out the better imo but that’s another rant.
is the nhs flawed and in serious need of a revamp? yes, absolutely. but as someone who lives here, works within the system, literally owes their eyesight to alder hey hospital, and has seen so many lives saved by the nhs – you are wrong. the people in this country are proud of the nhs and it’s no secret our prime minister wants to privatise it. would alfie evans still be alive if he had received treatment in america? who knows, but his parents sure as hell weren’t trying to have him treated there (they had been attempting to transport him to italy, another country with universal healthcare.) much like myself, they are working class people from the north west who probably wouldn’t have been able to afford the first hurdle, let alone advanced neurocare. seriously what is up with some of the bills that get posted here.
criticise our healthcare system as you will but it’s not ok of you to use one controversial, highly publicised, and very sad case to let people think that a system that is already killing them by being so damn expensive (for the sake of keeping the rich really stinking rich) with absolutely no focus on preventative care is in their best interest.
whether or not alfie evan’s case was ruled for the best is another issue but do not use it to slam a system that is saving so many lives every day – for free.
OP seems the type to think Alfie’s Army is a good thing – ya know, threatening doctors with guns to treat something untreatable?
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