The UK's socialised healthcare and welfare

@TheEmperor Yeah you're at point 3. It's an ideological playbook for governments which would prefer to see public services replaced with private ones.

@TheEmperor I know man. What I'm saying is your government has a playbook and you're falling for it.

@TheEmperor My argument is that public health care works, is massively popular with anyone who has it, and that private healthcare is terrible and unpopular and also way way way more expensive per person.

However, there are interests that would love to privatize health care because they can make money, and those interests influence governments.

So governments slowly cut away at the NHS or whatever, and over time service degrades until people start talking about how public healthcare as a -concept- doesn't work, rather than their healthcare system has been sabotaged.

@CountScrofula
The UK Tories did exactly this before they privatised British Rail. It's now happening in the NHS, in addition to incremental stealth privatisation

@Burnley123 Right. This happens all the time in Canada.

@TheEmperor Yes it would. 😂

@TheEmperor Because corporations want to make profits and if you can make money out of something then that is good for them. They lobby politicians to privatise things and suddenly there is a new 'market' to make money out of when non existed before.

@CountScrofula Right on indeed. The conservative party have been cutting funding more and more over the last decade whilst using it as an excuse to slowly and covertly privative it, which they have been doing.

@TheEmperor What's with the Roman Empire stuff?