Reply #81: that is why the RW is trying to destroy it, death by privatisation and 'management reform' [View All]

[TheBaldyMan]

it scuppers the notion that everything is done better by private industry and public services are by definition inefficient and wasteful.

Recent experiments in trying to introduce market reforms and private management practices into the UK health-care system have proved disastrous. Senior management and highly paid consultants brought in from private industry have resulted in higher costs and poorer standards of care. Compulsory tendering of services to outside commercial companies have similarly proven to be universally retrograde.

The path we are following takes the UK closer to an American style system, very expensive for tax-payers and very lucrative for the companies, a lot of whom are US based.

All this mis-management is being used as justification for wider privatisation even though it is the privatisation that is at fault.