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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

See Canada and healthcare for prime example

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

See Texas for the inevitable future.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

What's up with Texas healthcare?

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I meant the rush towards privatization in general, but you can pick almost any category and discover that Texas consistently underperforms given the size of its economy and population.

Health care specifically is like, bottom out of all states:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-health-care-ranking-bottom-18171519.php

Reasons vary, but the privatization meme applies to almost all of them.

[-] danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ontarian here, this instantly came to mind. At least we overturned Bill 124, so we got that going for us.

[-] Platform27@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Hello, the UK and the NHS. Well over a decade of budget cuts, mixed with corporate political “donations” (to both majour parties), is leading to this end. Some parts are already privatised.

[-] FrogFractions@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It’s been in full swing since Thatcher.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Bill "The Good One" Gates has been doing exactly this to public schools in the United States for decades with some help from his buddy epstein

[-] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Wtf this is actually based

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile those same people support endless bailouts for failed corporations because THAT'S somehow capitalism+

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This feels like a how-to-guide more than anything! See this happening an awful lot in the UK

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