How national healthcare systems are destroyed

National healthcare system or NHS is, like many other previously socialistic systems, an unused source of money to large healthcare firms. Their problem is that national healthcare systems often work very well and they are cheaper for the state and for the people. But with enough money and time it’s possible to destroy the system and replace it with private healthcare.

They have to go through some kind of political resistance to achieve their goal, but in today’s political climate it’s quite easy, given it’s done slowly to avoid being accused of corruption. So what they do is they begin to talk about how expensive healthcare is and how it needs cuts. The media narrative leans on charts which show how expensive it is, but they never point out that it’s true, healthcare is expensive.

Then they build up political pressure to make “necessary” cuts, which they implement by reducing the amount of doctors and nurses to save money. This is the current situation in Finland, but the destruction of NHS has been going on for years. When things get tough and people die as a result of this, a carefully engineered privatization, the politicians are forced to make some kind of change.

And there you have it. The “change” has to be privatization, because “obviously” NHS doesn’t work. Even though we know it does work, it did work back in 30-40 years ago, people just don’t want to remember it. Privatization is first seen as a better solution, but it will be worse, because we also know it is. It’s much more expensive for the state and especially for poor people who no longer have money to become sick. The political talk for privatization will begin probably during next year or two, because the economic outlook is going to be worse than it is now. They will say “we need more cuts” and since NHS is in crisis it needs a complete reset to a new, better system.