There is another article online about the horrors of all the foreign doctors in the UK. They are the ones most likely to be accused of abuse and malpractice.
They’re just not implementing socialism correctly.
Mr. Moderator, I messed up. Of course the title is NHS, not NHA. Can it be changed? Sorry. :-(
Maybe they can bring in more Muslim nurses who can put the infidels on the Liverpool Care Pathway even they don’t call it that anymore.
Ludwig von Mises described exactly why socialism fails everywhere. Its not the “tragedy of the commons,” corruption, political meddling, bureaucracy, etc... those are unavoidable side-effects, not causes.
Rather, its that without a free and open price mechanism to signal to both users and suppliers how to value one thing versus another, it is impossible to properly allocate what are always finite resources. No central planner can ever overcome this.
Control costs by dictating wages instead of adjusting to what the market requires and you end up with either a shortage of workers or poor workers or both.
But, but...the libs keep telling us that single payer works so well in Britain, that it’s much cheaper and better than our system.
The Nursing shortage works great for my daughter - she is a superior Nurse and has been writing her own ticket with various agencies vying for her....
The NHS is the UK’s largest employer with over a million employees.
How many of those people actually see patients?