The plan to move towards privatization is not about patient care … is about making profits and generating wealth for those who would control the system.

The people that want privatization to happen don’t care about people or their health … all they can see are the profits that can be generated from taking advantage of people during the worst events in their lives .

big “duh”

I wonder if it’s better for the top 10% and much worse for everyone else (and thus worse overall), as is often the case in private sectors. I had an argument during an election season with someone (they said they were a doctor) who said they didn’t want to wait for an MRI so they paid to have it done at a clinic they knew. They said this was a net benefit and argument for privatization because it cleared up their spot in the public line for someone else. I argued that being able to pay money for faster or better care is the very definition of a two-tiered health system that treats the wealthy better than everyone else.

Don’t fall for it. Private medicine will destroy more than health.

New public management is a trojan horse meant to let companies put their straws down the milkshake of public spending and drink it all up.

Change my mind.

Well yeah, try going to a for profit hospital in one of your southern neighborly equivalent states. Sure New York may have a good private hospital or two, but Oklahoma City or Dallas sure as shit doesn’t (apologies if I mischaracterized y’all Albertans, I’m just thinking fairly populous petrostate with a high agricultural theming).

Medical privatization will kill some of you. Ask Americans how we know. But there is one piece of advice we got from a neighbor a long time ago that we wish we’d heeded that you may need to hear: paying higher taxes so everyone gets good free healthcare is quickly personally worth it. Wise folks that told us that, really wish we’d listened