Why is the nhs being privatised
Pros & Cons of Privatising the NHS | Medicine MMI | Kenji & KharmaMedic
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what's up guys my name is Kenji welcome
back to my channel I'm here again with
NASA aka coma medic what's up guys this
is second part to our mini series of MMI
interviews so we'll be making those
videos to try and help you guys to
answer different questions that might
come up in the interview yeah
today we'll be talking about
privatisation of the NHS you know what
the pros what are the cons because NHS
is such a huge topic like it comes up
every single year yeah it came up in my
interview Birmingham you know huge part
to the interview barium actually leaded
my worst so if I could go back time I
deftly spent a lot more time you know
working on the NHS questions so yeah
guys the NHS is very likely to come up
on your interview so before your
interviews you know in the months before
I do Google NHS BBC NHS whatever and
just see what recent news is surrounding
the NHS that's like for us really hot
topic last year was like the doctor
strikes or a year and a half ago was the
strikes that doctors were having and
things like that so do be aware of
what's going on with NHS in your time
yeah and I talked to doctor as well I
think what I did as well is I found a
doctor who I could chat to ask him like
you know what's going on in hospital or
so on NHS because they're you know don't
know more than anyone else really so
yeah so the question is what are the
pros and cons of privatizing the NHS yes
are some of the pros I mean first point
I can say is the government can spend
money elsewhere
so obviously the NHS is self-funded it's
funded by taxation
yeah but if there is a small you know
fee being charged like a 10 pound fee to
see a GP a doctor the money could be
spent elsewhere to improve health care
yeah so you know it could be used in
you know reduce wasting times yeah the
de Jennifer different aspects of
medicine that is receiving not much
funding yeah
for example mental health as well it's
actually is currently getting increases
in funding but you know it was lacking
before and that's where that money could
go so another good Pro of privatizing
the NHS is that you will have increased
competition between the different
companies that will provide the services
so in the past there was a trial of
privatizing or outsourcing some of the
NHS services very different companies
and you know just like in a normal free
market economy when there are different
companies providing a service you get
competition between them yeah and what I
usually ends up doing is driving prices
down and increasing the quality of the
service provided so something like that
could be beneficial in that patients
will be getting better healthcare and
prices will be lower for patients the
Amazon America as well a lot of
companies are always you know looking to
be the best lowest cost yeah exactly if
you have that England you know obviously
England all we have really is NHS yeah
but that does happen in private
hospitals not to be something that could
add to the quality of care within the
NHS another thing is that it could
reduce the waiting time as well so
obviously right now within the A&E
there's a huge huge pressure on their
knee
Amy to you know when you go to see a
doctor sometimes it could take six seven
eight hours over the target is four
hours so knowing that you'd need to pay
a fee to stop people from going to the
Amy for example different reasons they
don't really have to I could always wait
to see the GP they're always you think
twice about going to see a doctor
yeah and then of course the it's the
cons that we'll talk about later for
example you know not being able to go to
the a knee because you can't afford it
but we'll get into that in the second
half of this video yeah and so yeah so a
reduction in wait times is going to be
good for the people who can afford to
pay and go to the ami and have those
reduce wait times but of course that
reduce wait times coming at the cost of
people who aren't being there because
they're unable to afford that care
definitely cuz 10 pound to someone who's
very rich could be nothing and could
make no difference told ya but no time
for someone who comes from a lower
socioeconomic background it could be a
huge thing and it's good you know could
separate you know didn't apply to health
again I thought that at the end we're
going to talk about in connectives in a
second yeah so another Pro if people
knew that the NHS was privatizing you
had to pay to go use the NHS
then it would encourage people to have a
more active lifestyle right so if help
was something that wasn't a almost
guaranteed or given you would want to
make sure that you're eating healthy
that you're exercising and that you're
doing all these things to prevent your
risk of complications prevent your risk
of diseases so that you wouldn't have to
go visit NHS and pay for it one thing
you could say is that having the option
to pay for the drugs could actually
improve the patient's choice so on the
NHS a lot of drugs are fun and competing
by the NHS and you have no choice in
what you get for example if cancer
there's a lot of cancer drugs that have
the potential to increase the survival
of types of cancer but obviously being
funded being publicly funded you can't
have that so if you have money to choose
what you want you might have the option
that getting the best quality of care
that that could be possible yeah that's
really fair point and in addition to
patients having choice linking back to
what we talked about earlier with
increased competition between companies
if there's multiple companies providing
the same service the patient can choose
which service they want you know based
on cost reputation quality things like
that so you know instead of being forced
to do whatever then HS has you can have
more choice definitely obviously a
constitute as well because the richest
will you know have the best choice but
we'll come on to talk about that in a
second so one massive con - having
private health care is it can become
commercialized so it could be more about
you know selling the best drug you know
sending its patients and become a
completely commercial market rather than
actually looking out for what's best for
the patient yeah and that's very
dangerous if you know prospects to have
really yeah so I actually I don't know
in the UK if companies are allowed to
advertise drugs on TV and in newspapers
are they yeah you see it there's a law
in the United States where companies can
advertise medicines on the TV and in
magazines and billboards and things like
that and it becomes really really
commercialized like Kenji said it's all
about how you can sell something to the
patient yeah and you know a lot of
people can become tricked by those
things and they can not be able to make
the best decision about it yeah it kinda
goes away from like what medicine is bad
no medicine should have nothing
money they should be always about
providing the best quality of care for
the patients and you know having the
best choice that possibly have
so having a commercial market will be
like Christmas really like you'll never
really be like an actual health care
system right yeah yeah you can always
mention that as well it's a good point
you can say that you know in an ideal
world medicine is about just treating
the patient no matter who the patient is
what their background how much money
they have but you know the real world
the real world is the real world and
that's why something like the NHS is
really struggling you know there's so
many people and so much demand and not
enough they can do to provide everything
they want to definitely so another kind
of privatizing the NHS is probably one
of the more obvious ones that you know
health care won't be available to
everyone
it'll only be available to those people
who can afford it and like Kenji said to
me earlier it's gonna divide the
population you're gonna have the people
who can't afford healthcare and are
happy with the system and how it
currently works and then you'll have you
know the homeless people for example
let's say or people who are from a lower
socioeconomic status how are they gonna
be able to afford health care if it's
private
yeah we could you completely unequal you
know like like you just said all the
richest people have the best health care
in the world so like in Kenya you know
if you are born a rich family you do
have you know the best health care you
live a lot longer than people who were
born in Louis ocean on their backgrounds
yeah it's come like a lease even if you
watch the film release you know okay so
basically that's Matt Damon it's very
good film okay but Alicia so basically
all the richest people live on like a
fake planet okay like a man-made planet
and have this machine which can heal it
commission heal anything your body right
it's all the richest people like live
forever and everyone you know who don't
have the morning to go city smoothly
struggle they look kind of tennis that
world chess analysis check check that
feel about these massive like yet
another thing is that if the NHS is
privatized it kind of goes against the
principles of what a doctor is you know
so doctors should always be someone who
wants to catch the person no matter
where they come from no matter how much
money they have in their bank on yeah
but if you do you know if they do
privatize NHS and
she comes up the doctor can't afford it
those leads doctors actually turn away
patients so that happens a lot in Kenya
you know like a exam from Kenya and you
can you know if you don't have the money
to pay the healthcare yeah the first
thing they do is they ask you like do
you have money can you pay for it right
and then if you don't have money you
just can't receive the healthcare you
know he says completely goes against
what doctors are supposed to do right
and so the final con that we have is
that privatizing the NHS would lead
companies to have incentive to make it
all about profitability so companies
would be incentivized to try and
maximize their profits over providing
good patient care and of course that's
not going to be good for the patient
especially if they don't have enough of
an informed opinion they don't have
enough information to choose between
different companies yeah and it could
become about which company can market to
the most patients which one markets most
effectively and of course that's not
gonna be good for the patients yeah and
it cause like a lot of pressure to be on
doctors to prescribe the best treatment
so it happens a lot like in a bar for
example where there's a new product
which would sell the most you know the
manager will always tell the doctor tell
the bartender is to push this product
because it will sell the most and they
might have Commission and the market
commission exactly so doctors might have
another incentive you know it won't be
they won't put the you know the care of
the patient at the heart of the decision
making process it'll be what will sell
the most and you know what will be most
profitable and that is definitely what
you wouldn't want in a health care
system yeah yeah that's pretty much it
guys my hope this video has been
somewhat informative to you guys like I
said the NHS is a huge topic I hate
talking about it I think when it came on
my TV I was like yeah but it is a
massive topic that you have to fully
cover so I hope it's giving you guys a
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