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Originally Posted by Stuart
The NHS has repeated been shown to actually have lower administration costs than the health systems in most other countries. America's health system has the highest, and that is the system our government seem to want to implement.
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It depends how you compare, doesn’t it? If, for example, if we have the same level of administration as the average in the EU but provide a lesser service, then our administration costs are too high.
It is worth remembering that the UK has one of the lowest numbers of practising doctors per population (including GPs and hospital doctors) in the EU. Additionally, the number of nurses is lower than comparable countries like France, Germany and The Netherlands.
I would also point out that the plea of ‘we are no less efficient than anyone else’ is not exactly reassuring and does not mean there is no scope for substantial savings to be made.
As for the government wanting to implement a system similar to the US over here, there is no truth to that. Labour have said consistently since the 1950s that the Conservatives want to privatise the NHS. Well, here we are in 2022, and that has not happened. What is more, such a premise has been denied by Conservatives equally consistently. Doubtless Labour will still be claiming that the Conservatives want to destroy the NHS in 2122 as part of their strategy to ‘weaponise’ the NHS.