Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
It also shows the KS isn’t trying to derail things currently unlike the press
Doesn’t men’s he won’t try to have his day but he is being sensible
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Doesn’t men’s he won’t try to have his day but he is being sensible
Insurance based private model.
Difference is that Germany has something very similar to Obamacare - you have to have insurance taken at source IIRC and those who don't earn enough have it provided by the state. Many top up more and get more in return.
One of the best aspects of an insurance based private model is that they can focus on long term savings and spend more on preventative measures. They're responsible to economically literate investors who can understand the value of doing so, rather than an electorate that can only understand "nurses is good so make nurse pay big."
They can also increase the cost of premiums for people who are unable to comprehend the simplistic calories in/out model, etc.
German spend per capita is higher than here, but the burden is a lot less than being taxed out of the arse by the NHS and then having to pay for private healthcare on top just to be treated like a human being when you need it.
SpurMeUp
Jimmy Cantrell
Interesting. Though Germany's spend is more than here. In the US there are all sorts of problems with this model. It's highly inefficient, with mega-rich shiney hospitals for those that can afford it, and struggling hospitals for those that can't. The government have to subsidise private health care companies to keep them afloat, and there isn't cover in rural areas. All the tracking and charging of health care so insurance companies can pay-out is ultimately wasteful. In a perfect system, you would not waste resources on this extra layer. It is inefficient. We don't have that extra layer of cost burden, with people tracking and billing hours, nor an insurance company skimming profit. We (or the NHS) also has better economies of scale, and can control wage, drug and other costs with a de facto monopoly.
The question is, how/can you bring free-market principles into health care? The premise that doing something well, better than others, earns you more, is a highly effective way to improve quality. I don't think you automatically have to decentralise and privatise to achieve that. I just think governments have not been good at changing the cultures of public bodies to act with greater emphasis on performance and reward. Moreover, in the health care setting, how do you measure performance whether private or state-run? The potential for private enterprise to manipulate data to sell things is limitless. For things like health or food safety, pure free markets without intervention, are probably not a good thing.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
China has refused repeated requests by the World Health Organisation to take part in investigations into the origins of COVID-19, the WHO representative in China has told Sky News
Parklaner81
Steve Hodge
So the media have spent the last few days ramming the 100k testing target down our throats, working themselves into a frenzy and sharpening their sticks in readiness for the government's failure...
Now it suddenly looks as if they might hit the target or at least get very close, the media's tone has changed markedly. All of a sudden, the target was never anything more than a distraction, a poor substitute for a strategy on the government's part etc. etc. etc.
Absolutely pathetic.
Now it suddenly looks as if they might hit the target or at least get very close, the media's tone has changed markedly. All of a sudden, the target was never anything more than a distraction, a poor substitute for a strategy on the government's part etc. etc. etc.
Absolutely pathetic.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Very good thinking and it is why i liked Corbyn.
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
That shifty incompetent clam Johnson reaching for excuses already, "oh Britain wasn't ready for a radical lock down, oh we acted faster than other European nations." He knows...he knows. A very nervy performance form him and I think he is a poor media performer anyway. He has blood on his hands and that other clam Dominic Cummings too.
SpurMeUp
Jimmy Cantrell
1. The government won’t hit the target but we knew that already. They are just trying to present a good picture.
2. Testing is what allows us to exit lockdown. Track the virus and reduce deaths, and take control of the pandemic in this country. The media are therefore focusing on it.
3. The government have been slow to focus on testing. Finally, months after the most successful nations, the UK is testing on a larger scale. It’s late but it is welcome. Therefore the media should be supportive shouldn’t they?
I get the media is crap. I don’t watch the news it’s dull and repetitive, but the whole narrative about ‘they’ve got it in for the government’ and should just suck up to them, because I support them, I personally don’t follow.
I recommend binning general news - does it add anything of value? - and watch something like Newsnight which is a cut above, not sensationalist and focused on insight.
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Parklaner81
Steve Hodge
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Legohamster
Cecil Poynton
Don’t have to support it - but the media trying to fire “gotcha” questions at them is tedious as is the scaremongering.
Plenty of time for investigation after, where the process will he looked at.
They clearly haven’t been perfect - but now is not the time.
SpurMeUp
Jimmy Cantrell
Maybe right. I find it tiresome, so don't watch. But what else are the media supposed to do? They have a role to ask the important questions not suck up to politicians. If they can shine a light on things that need addressing, they can provide a useful service to create some pressure for the government to improve. Without Parliament functioning properly it is important someone critiques government directly. What would you recommend the media did instead?
When this started the media turned into a death cult, I was critical too. But they are there to report on what is happening. Thank goodness for the Captain, at least a different kind of story.
How much of the frustration is the media acting differently and how much is people just watching it a lot more?
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
Could not agree more, sad to say that even at this time of dread there are still some who are agenda driven.
Mikey10
John Lacy
I find this ‘let’s all stick our heads in the sand’ approach baffling, to be honest.
It’s patently obvious now that the government made huge mistakes - the only reason they are not admitting it (as Macron had the balls and honesty to do in France) is they know a public inquiry is coming and they know that that saying sorry means accepting some liability.
So why shouldn’t the media therefore ask questions? If Boris thinks 40,000 deaths and rising is “success” I’d hate to know what he thinks failure is. I’m glad the media is putting them under pressure to up their game (just as I would be if Labour or the Lib Dem’s had fudged up to the same level).
Mikey10
John Lacy
I think Starmer will slowly but surely expose him for what he is - a not very bright bluffer.
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
I have to say that the testing is farcical from what I’ve seen first hand and see daily at work
We have a constant email chain at work requesting people get tested ASAP (government dept.) to a Point that I know of some of my team who have very slight symptoms of at all who are being told to get tested .... to increase test numbers
and I know of at least 3 people who have even tested who clearly had Corona and were found to be negative
it’s just about numbers, numbers and numbers to tick boxes
We have a constant email chain at work requesting people get tested ASAP (government dept.) to a Point that I know of some of my team who have very slight symptoms of at all who are being told to get tested .... to increase test numbers
and I know of at least 3 people who have even tested who clearly had Corona and were found to be negative
it’s just about numbers, numbers and numbers to tick boxes
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
Think most are just saying the press are just sh.it at their job, plain and simple.
They work on such a low level. Agree there are good programmes/writers out there but even they get outblasted by the noisy stuff, and if you're not prepared to scratch beneath the surface they're not on many peoples detuned radar.