People Seem Surprised that Jeremy Hunt was promoted This Week
When we learnt this week we learn that Jeremy Hunt is to be promoted from Health Secretary to 'Minister for Health and Social Care', the collective jaws of the mainstream media hit the floor.
"This is a guy who has presided over the wilful and systematic destruction of the NHS. By any metric, he's failing in his job - patient outcomes, Accident & Emergency waiting times, waiting times for operations, mental health care provision & on & on & on" they all cry in unison! "Why has he been promoted instead of sacked?"
The answer is simple. They are just confused as to what Jeremy's job is. It's NOT making sure the NHS runs well, instead it is under-funding and breaking the NHS so it doesn't function, then chopping it up into pieces and selling it off. It's the same privatisation pattern the tories have been following since the 1980s. Once you realise that this is the goal, you see that Jeremy is doing a splendid job.
It has been a stated Tory policy since the 1980s to privatise the NHS. They've just used the cover of 'austerity' to finally bring it to fruition.
P.S in case you think this is speculation, in 2009 Hunt co-wrote a book calling for the NHS to be broken up. He's been in charge of the NHS since 2012, and I'd say the plans are coming along nicely.
Urgh. I don't even listen to the news any more, or read newspapers – and this is why. I remember the time that BBC Radio 4 newsreader mispronounced Jeremy Hunt's surname, saying it with a "C" instead of an "H" – one of the few times the mainstream media got it right.
At the weekend I was having a discussion with a nice man who kept referring to all the wastage in the NHS. I said I suspected that corruption was more to blame – ie, kickbacks being given to managers who order expensive pharmaceuticals or machinery, etc. But my friend said: "Oh no – it's all due to wastage. I read it in the newspapers."
I rest my case.
Ha, I'm the same. I have to leave the room if 'the news' comes on someone's TV!
Me too! And also if someone is listening to the oh-so-important-and-authoritative Radio 4 Today programme or lunchtime news.
I consider myself an agnostic on economics, meaning I'll support what works. I don't follow British politics too closely, but the story sounds all too familiar in that systematic destruction of some program is reported as incompetence by mainstream media. A lot of people believe that Obama's healthcare program was meant to collapse by design so that full blown socialist healthcare could be implemented and other's believe the bill is failing due to incompetence (in any event, healthcare premiums are more expensive for the middle class over here). Do you think we will see a day where cryptocurrency makes taxation obsolete (perhaps the government controls the money supply so perfectly, that they simply know the amount they need for the programs, and the money is tracked to eliminate corruption). I don't adhere to an ideology other than I'm against corruption, and I tend to think corruption is downfall of most systems.
The thing is at present the NHS could be considered a socialist system, but it provides better healthcare outcomes for half the cost of treatment in the US. A true free-market in healthcare would be cheaper still, but I believe what they're building here in the UK is a model of the incredibly corrupt & wasteful US system.
We now have the unbelievable situation where since being privatised our rail network is more heavily subsidised & more expensive than anywhere else in Europe...& the companies running the trains on it? Oh...they are STATE owned from France & Germany!!