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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago

See Canada and healthcare for prime example

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago

See Texas for the inevitable future.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

What's up with Texas healthcare?

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago

It’s been in full swing since Thatcher.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months 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

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Wtf this is actually based

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