General community for news/discussion in the UK.
Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.
Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
Y'all are doomed if this shit happens. We have it here in the states and it ain't fucking fun. People die because they can't afford to visit the Dr. Others just go bankrupt. Fight this shit tooth and nail.
Came here to say just this. They'll promise fucking anything, but here's the reality:
-The system gets worse for patients AND doctors, because the money is now reserved for the investment firm rather than for paying for services or supporting the hospital. Basically, they'll determine that there are "inefficiencies", like maintenance on equipment like ventilators and IV pumps, free parking (not kidding), doctors seeing less than 4 patients and hour (not kidding), nurses having less than eight patients (also not kidding), and having certain specialties on call 24 hours (for the current rate) and "cut" the inefficiencies. Of course, none of that money being saved actually goes towards improving things for the hospital, patient, or provider, it just gets pocketed by the private equity firm.
-Starting with smaller, more rural hospitals, they'll start stripping the hospitals for assets while simultaneously yelling constantly about how broke the hospital is and begging for huge taxpayer handouts just to stay open for another year. Eventually, in spite of any government bailouts they've received, they'll still close the hospital anyway, assuring everyone that they're very sad about it, but it'll be okay because at least the bigger hospital down the road is still open (for now).
Don't do it, you guys. Send these fucks packing and vote out any politician that tries to tell you that they need to let them fuck up your healthcare system.
vote out any politician that tries to tell you that they need to let them fuck up your healthcare system.
We're gonna get the choice to vote for politicians that won't, right? Right?
Yeah, shareholders and social services don't get along well and never will. The blackholes want returns on their investments, and those returns have to be incremental, you have to make more profit every quarter. CEOs will start squeezing every last penny out of people and the government until the healthcare system becomes a shell of itself and only available for those rich ones. We are living it here in the states. Social services like these can never work with capitalism and its profits.
Tories have total control until the next GE. Everything is a smash grab with them right now. They know their card is marked for at least a decade after this lot.
Yeah, this sounds ridiculous. So basically grab as much cash as possible on your way out? It always baffles me as to why and who votes for people like these? People who clearly work so hard against their own citizens.
People are conned by expensive campaigns.
Absolutely. Expensive campaigns made Trump look amazing to a lot of people, and some are even willing to die for him.
Worked for Hitler as well.
"Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled."
People vote for it willingly
Of course, some will believe that the pig is pretty because of the lipstick, but the others need to work more to show them otherwise.
This has been the tory gameplan for years.
The morons who support tories so strongly are generally those who rely most heavily on the NHS (the elderly).
Shooting themselves in the foot, because they can’t see beyond their racist nonsense.
Same reason we got brexit. Racist fuckheads
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last month, it was reported that one such firm acquired a staffing agency that employs NHS doctors and nurses, betting that the painful backlog of rescheduled appointments will be good for business.
The private equity firms of today were born on Wall Street in the 1980s era of the “leveraged buyout”, a technique that involved buying up companies, often loading them with debt and then selling them on at a profit.
The German healthcare system, which is often praised by rightwing thinktanks in Britain as a model to emulate, has seen numerous private equity deals in recent years.
Eye doctors have described how they face pressure to make “as much money as possible” by selling patients additional services, such as special examinations and cataract operations.
“Private equity firms are just the latest in a long line of investors that have seized this opportunity,” Vivek Kotecha, a chartered accountant who runs an independent consultancy, told me.
When asked how he would deal with the NHS crisis, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting echoed his Conservative counterparts and pledged to use private companies to reduce waiting lists.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!