Make sense of this…
People who want the NHS privatised say:
“Taxpayers can’t afford to pay more into the NHS”
Yet who is it that will pay for healthcare when it’s privatised?
It’s us!
…and it’ll cost a hell of a lot more when private firms whack their profit margins on.
Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.
Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.
For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.
I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).
"It's for the sake & the future of the NHS. If we don't do something about it now it will fall apart."
Today nursing staff are back on picket lines. Their fight is all our fight.
Are you still with them?
Share this video to say yes.
#RCNStrike#FairPayForNursing#NursesStrike
And for the record, Labour would make no difference. Decisions in this country are not being made by anyone in Westminster.
They are certainly not being made by the people of Britain.
A thread of some of the shocking stats emerging from the budget...
Someone earning £1 million-a-year will be receiving a £55k tax cut – twice the average UK salary
▪️Energy: Wholesale prices are going down, but retail prices are going up.
▪️Finance: Mortgage, credit card and loan interest rates are going up, but savings interest rates aren’t.
They are fleecing us.
#CostOfLivingCrisis
“What are you in for?”
“Not wearing a mask when I went for a piss in a pub back in 2020. What about you?”
“Heating my living room above 19C during the winter of 2022”
During Covid, people adopted unnatural behavior towards a disease that isn’t deadly to most & spreads through the normal human acts of breathing and socializing. Many of those behaviors still persist today. What happened? 🧵 (1/9)