‘Middle-Class Lefties’ Won’t Stop Lab Using Pvt Sec in NHS

As a working class lefty, Labour ministers railing against lefties of any class in - of all places - the Sun, is going to go down like a lead balloon. But I am also aware of the frequent centrist modus operandi of tailoring their message to suit their audience, in this case Sun readers. He might well have said the same basic thing with very different language in the Guardian. Labour centrists have always tailored their message to suit their audience. Blair was a master at this, able on the one hand to convince the CBI that he was a Thatcherite convert, whilst on the other convincing the TUC that he was a latter day socialist, though in the end neither believed him anymore, lol. But for a while it worked.

I don't like the language used in the Sun. Limited use of the private sector when this is quicker and cheaper is fair enough until the NHS gets sorted out. If I needed an operation, as long as I still didn't need to pay for it, if I could get it done much quicker privately I would take it, especially if in pain. Most people would.

But we need to be aware that the private sector is there to make money, pay dividends to shareholders based upon maximised profits, with fat cat salaries by way of encouragement. They are not there as a low cost charitable alternative. When it comes to getting more bang for our bucks, the NHS itself needs greater investment, because the private sector alternative will end up costing us more in the long run. PFI has served to demonstrate that. Wes Streeting himself has been too close to private sector healthcare providers and there is some risk that he has in part gone native on that score. He needs to be certain that he is serving the interests of the people first and foremost, and not his private healthcare buddies.

On the other hand the problem is NOW and the new NHS hospitals are FUTURE. More important to get all those people treated and back to contributing before we look at ideology.  

The history of private v nationalised work is the former looks to greater efficiency and the latter looks to maintaining norms even if inefficient. Dividends are such a low % that they just don't make any real difference. The issue is whether the cost efficiency of private is worth the arguably higher potential risks of poor outcomes.

The basic contract with the people that healthcare if free is rightly a nationalised commitment but that doesn't mean that all the myriad of parts of the NHS have all to be nationalised too. No sane person would suggest the NHS should only use ambulances designed, built, serviced and fuelled by nationalised departments would they.

It's just the same poisonous/failed Neoliberal ideology Nu lab pushed - which led to unaffordable PFIs and hospitals owing huge amounts to private companies. Someone remind me of Cherie Blair's interests in private health and her shares in such?

Oh goodness, this must qualify as trolling and should be deleted on sight, can't challenge the argument so censorship must be sought at the earliest opportunity. Quick, get everything covered up!

Please do try not to keep insulting me in this way its unnecessary and derails the threads. 

Streeting takes in big donations from private health co's: www.thenational.scot/news/24250557.wes-streeting-takes-175k-donors-linked-private-health-firms/