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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See Canada and healthcare for prime example

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See Texas for the inevitable future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's up with Texas healthcare?

[–] [email protected] 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 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s been in full swing since Thatcher.

[–] [email protected] 6 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 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf this is actually based

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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