UK: Daily Telegraph: Abolish the NHS to save lives, institute demands

Abolish the NHS to save lives, institute demands (msn.com)

 

From the Wikipedia article on the Institute of Economic Affairs,

"The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a right-wing, free market think tank[7] registered as a UK charity.[8] Associated with the New Right,[5][6] the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute"[9] and says that it seeks to "further the dissemination of free-market thinking" by "analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems".[9][10] The IEA is the oldest free market think-tank in the UK [11] and was established to promote free-market responses to economic challenges by targeting influential academics and journalists, as well as students, in order to propagate these ideas widely."

 

The Netherlands is given as an example. It's getting more expensive here with less being paid for by the insurance. Be careful what you wish for.

 

I don’t have the sources to hand but remember some good discussions from rather less ideological think tanks and experts which came to the conclusion that changing the funding method is a red herring.

 

Further from Wikipedia:

 

Quite a lot of people like the IEA seem to have crawled under a stone recently, or at least lost their seats in parliament. Maybe the IEA should crawl after them.

The paradigm of market based health care is the USA, which I think came out bottom again this week, despite spending about four times as much per head as the UK on healthcare.

Somebody needs to disprove the hypothesis that if we had credible funding - like an extra £80 billion instead of the currently suggest £5B extra - we could have the best systemic the world.

 

Well the people who did the study want money and they would very much get what they wish for if that happens. In the end this always comes down to different people have very different, sometimes mutually exclusive, goals.

Although for sure the health care industry badly needs to be subject to a minimum of market forces, so that the supply of terrible services dies down from lack of utilization instead of being uselessly propped up, it's not the coverage side that needs it, it's the service delivery that does.

But anyway this is an investment brochure for big capital, not a study about health care.