Do you know of only one country in the world still going the way of less privatisation in healthcare ? This is not a government thing. Want to go back the other way ? Welcome back to 70s level. There is no miracle.
what do you mean by “there is no miracle”? Privatisation is a political choice, nothing to do with miracles. The UK has voted for that choice for half a century, it could vote against it at any time. If anyone believes that voting against privatisation is something miraculous, then they have merely bought into the lies and myths that they have been told for half a century.
Keynes was not a messiah, all he did 80 years ago was demonstrate that creating a state for the benefit of human beings was not only possible here on earth, but was also economically efficient as well and socially beneficial.
That we turned away from human ends and back to the supposed benefits of market ends in the 70’s is down to an economic theory, albeit one based on a quasi religious belief in an “invisible hand” a belief that gained prominence during the pre-democratic industrial revolution and very much served the ends of the exploitation upon which it depended. The greater equality created by democracy and then the Welfare was not conducive to industrial scale exploitation, so had to go.
Privatisation is a political choice based on belief in an ancient and broken and corrupted ideology. Privatisation is not written on tablets of stone. Belief is privatisation is just that, a belief, and a belief contradicted by observation, experience, common sense and the greater good.
More Privatisation will be bad for the NHS. Voting for more privatisation is voting to further weaken the NHS
Of all the things that we could be proud of about our history, the creation of the NHS should be top of the list. Not Empire, not Crusades, not the industrial revolution, but the one thing we created that was wholly and unequivocally good; socially good, morally good and not least, economically good.
But instead of pride in that achievement, we have voted to kill it by the death of a thousand cuts.
The NHS is an simple choice, not a miracle.