Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she is Britain’s chainsaw-wielding Javier Milei

[elhombresinnombre]

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Archived version: https://archive.ph/LQuHh

(Original link is to the Financial Times)

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Here's the same story from more accessible source:

Kemi Badenoch: Argentinian president Javier Milei would be ‘template’ for my government

Tory leader says she can fulfil same role as Milei, a far-right leader promising big cuts to public spending

www.theguardian.com

No archive version required but here's one anyway: https://archive.is/l8Jph

Once again, I'd say, we have people who are thousands of miles away both in distance and culture who are looking at the numbers without understanding what lies behind them. Ah well...

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Only the NHS left to privatise.

 

[Vossos]

Only the NHS left to privatise.

I have to commend the health service in Argentina. I was able to get emergency surgery free and fast and particularly I was able to access physiotherapy very quickly albeit quite far from where I was staying and following the decree charging foreigners I was getting radio silence as to what the cost would be - I’m sure they were still figuring that out.

In the end I decided to go private and somewhere closer. The cost of each physio appointment privately was cheaper than a return taxi so it worked for me.

On the flipside back in the UK I’ve managed to get x rays taken at the hospital quite quickly but 3 weeks of radio silence since then waiting for a consultant to review them and I’ve had to wait 3 weeks for just a phone consultation for physio.

Non-emergency treatment on the NHS is practically non-existent unless you’re willing to needlessly wait without treatment meanwhile private physio here is outrageously expensive.

(I’m certainly not for privatisation of the NHS but I feel it’s noticeable more on its knees than it was when I’d last used the NHS 2/3 years ago)

 

[Ruta Otto]

I have to commend the health service in Argentina. I was able to get emergency surgery free and fast and particularly I was able to access physiotherapy very quickly albeit quite far from where I was staying and following the decree charging foreigners I was getting radio silence as to what the cost would be - I’m sure they were still figuring that out.

In the end I decided to go private and somewhere closer. The cost of each physio appointment privately was cheaper than a return taxi so it worked for me.

On the flipside back in the UK I’ve managed to get x rays taken at the hospital quite quickly but 3 weeks of radio silence since then waiting for a consultant to review them and I’ve had to wait 3 weeks for just a phone consultation for physio.

Non-emergency treatment on the NHS is practically non-existent unless you’re willing to needlessly wait without treatment meanwhile private physio here is outrageously expensive.

(I’m certainly not for privatisation of the NHS but I feel it’s noticeable more on its knees than it was when I’d last used the NHS 2/3 years ago)

That's by design. Conservatives slash funding for whatever they wish to privatize, then when the service collapses due to lack of funding they claim that publicly funded services don't work and that privatization will "save" the service. Wash and repeat.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Only the NHS left to privatise.

Depending on your point of view it's already between 8% and 25% privatised. It's not just all the outsourcing: right from the start in 1948 General Practitioners have always been outside contractors because as a body they didn't agree with nationalisation and that was the only way the Atlee government could get them on board. Then you have the pharmacies, eyes, teeth, surgical appliances etc, etc. The list goes on...

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Depending on your point of view it's already between 8% and 25% privatised. It's not just all the outsourcing: right from the start in 1948 General Practitioners have always been outside contractors because as a body they didn't agree with nationalisation and that was the only way the Atlee government could get them on board. Then you have the pharmacies, eyes, teeth, surgical appliances etc, etc. The list goes on...

I believe that GPs are one of the biggest problems with the whole system.