Blinkin' socialist scroungers

[gingerjedi]

You'd have to make sure you didn't hit a bone in the first one, otherwise you might only wound the second one behind...

Would it be a mortal wound, one that causes a longer lingering death?

[TiroFijo]

Whatever you say about private banks they are run primarily for the benefit of their customers.

Actually they are run for the benefit of their shareholders!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

We all have anecdotes about the NHS good and bad. But just because something is getting better it does not mean it is any good. .

Indeed - I've heard that argument deployed often about rubbish software or websites - "you should see what it used to be like" - I don't care, I want it to be some use now.

Whatever you say about private banks they are run primarily for the benefit of their customers. If someone in a private bank is not up to the job then they are fired.
.

Bollocks - they are run for the benefit of shareholders as has already been pointed out. It's also bollocks that the inept are always fired, they are often promoted!

The NHS just like a private bank and just like Tescos provides services to customers.

Tescos is about shareholder value, nothing else. I stopped shopping at the local one when I found I couldn't rely on them to have even simple staples like bread and cereals on the shelves every time I went in. Clearly their priority wasn't selling me food.

The health service seems to be largely run for the benefit of the workers in it and whilst it delivers some excellent services, they are often provided in a manner that appears to have been calculated to cause the minimum of satisfaction.

The debate that no one appears to want to enter in to is how to introduce the positive dynamics of capitalism (responsibility, accountability and market forces) to a service that is a little bit more complicated and critical than the provision of food and money.

Happy to debate that, but on the evidence of banks and Tesco, I don't see much that is going to improve the NHS - certainly the relentless pursuit of short term shareholder gain isn't.