• jessca@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Pedant rant:

    I take issue with ‘needs a lot of work’, though it is common phrasing. It promotes the false idea that ‘business is more efficient’ by making it sound like the public administrators are too dumb to know how to do their job.

    The real issue, in most jurisdictions, is that it needs more and stable funding, and less political interference.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Well that and not to mention that politicians abroad do the exact same thing they do in the US. I know the British for instance have a Conservative Party that have repeatedly attacked their healthcare system in order to make privatized insurance seem better.

      And then the issues caused by a lack of funding get used in the US to say “SEE! This system doesn’t work!”

      Which is the logical equivalent of watching your friend baking pies with not enough filling and deciding to instead pay 4x the price for a pie that you won’t even get your promised slice of. Oh and the pie you get occasionally is made with the meat of other people who were also promised a pie and paid for it.

      • oo1@lemmings.world
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        29 minutes ago

        yes, and the latest “conservative” assailants on UK (maybe mostly English) health system wear red roses on their lapels.

        They all see a giant unmilked cash cow wandering around in a short skirt.