Jack Tame do we want a privatised health system

[Lilith7]

I don't understand this. Those who can afford private care can access it. Those who cannot have waiting lists.

Use private hospitals to clear the backlog, but do it on a short term basis and negotiate accordingly. If ACC can why can't Health?

Oh, and tax the rich.

The problem is that those on the waiting lists can also die from having to wait too long. While I agree with using private hospitals to clear the backlog, there's a problem as Sue Bagshaw said, with  Dr's in private hospitals not getting the experience others do in various types of illnesses.

I think raising taxes & using them to properly fund both health & education is the only reasonable & realistic way  to fix the situation, rather than allowing these greed crazed fools to privatise everything not nailed down.

ONE term govt....

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Ever more blatant about their vicious Neo Liberal agenda, this disgraceful govt is moving ever closer to privatised health. They're no longer bothering to disguise their quest for ever more profit.

Phil & Sue Bagshaw set up the charity hopsital here, & are well respected. I suspect if David Seymour attacks these two, he may be very surprised at the reaction.

Very clearly privatised health isn't in any way at all a good idea - apart from making money. I think they make an excellent point in that private health Drs will lack experience.
And there has been zero consultation on this issue - why not? Is it because most of us do NOT WANT privatised health?

Really, apart from some very, very wealthy people - does anyone want a privatised health system? Wouldn't we be better to pay a bit more tax, sufficient to cover health & education as some of the Scandinavian countries do.


Jack Tame, Q&A with Dr Sue Bagshaw & Dr Phil Bagshaw.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI1cYi69upI

we already pAy enough tax its what its spent on that needs prioritised

Everyone needs to pay their fair share of tax - including the ultra rich. And the top priorities for taxes should always be health & education.

But there are those who avoid paying their fair share of taxes & that has to change.