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snapper1971 t1_is2bzd3 wrote

When it's being deliberately drained of funds, deliberately mishandled so that American health care providers and insurance providers can drain our country dry, yes. Before the Conservative Party was elected in 2010 it was excellent.

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shamblingman t1_is2ghj2 wrote

How has it been deliberately drained of funds when funding has only increased every year?

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Bananasonfire t1_is4qt8d wrote

Okay, think of it this way:

Say you're a widget maker. It costs you $500 to run all the machines you need to make 100 widgets. Next year, due to new widget requirements such as higher complexity or some other factor, the costs to make the same widgets has increased to $700. Your boss, instead of increasing your maintenance budget to $700 to cover the increased cost, only increases your budget to $550, which isn't enough to keep the machines running, and so you can only make, say... 75 widgets.

This happens year on year for over a decade, until the costs for running the machines are actually $2000, but your budget is only $1000, so you can only make 50 widgets. Yes, your budget has gone up every year, but not inline with costs, and as a result, you've actually received a 50% cut in your maintenance budget.

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Mist_Rising t1_is2dm7z wrote

>When it's being deliberately drained of funds

NHS funding has steadily increased every for the past decade. And no it wasn't excellent under labour either, the issues just hasn't come out. It was actually going through a monetary crisis when labour loss power to Blair.

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JamaisVu714 t1_is2c5mx wrote

American health providers are draining UK healthcare dry?

Do tell

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indoninja t1_is2evr1 wrote

The worse NHS is, the more money to be made in private sector insurance.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say American healthcare providers are draining, UK, healthcare dry, but that isn’t exactly what he said.

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shamblingman t1_is2gnr1 wrote

He said NHS has been deliberately drained of funds, but that's completely inaccurate. Funding has increased every year.

He's simply posting the same anti US copypasta.

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indoninja t1_is2h4zz wrote

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shamblingman t1_is2igol wrote

Why are you linking a site with a political agenda? Why not just look up the actual funding?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/632289/nhs-england-health-spending-in-real-terms/

As you can clearly see, funding has increased every year from $3 billion to $10 billion per year.

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indoninja t1_is2jolg wrote

Because that doesn’t take into account, the cost of more complicated technologies, wages, etc

Ignores the reality of UK losing hospital beds.

Ignoring the reality of buy their own standards, they are incredibly under staffed.

But let me guess you’re gonna pretend the whole austerity with NHS movement had nothing to do with training funds.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/05/years-of-underfunding-leave-nhs-woefully-short-for-covid-second-wave

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