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Black Monday
Tuesday, 2 April 2013 03:07 am
The Guardian described today as "a new world heav[ing] into view [...] with sweeping changes in the fields of welfare, justice, health and tax".
I am in a position to be most scared about the NHS. For the record, I love the NHS. I wrote about it a few years ago in the context of US debates on private/public healthcare and it fscking guts me that the NHS is being steadily dismantled. My experiences of it are somewhat less rosy now - involvement with a Gender Identity Clinic will do that to you - but I still think it's better than private healthcare and its failings are not due to it being a public, nationalised system. If anything, its problems are due to a culture of targets and commodification.
BMJ: The future of the NHS—irreversible privatisation?
Max Pemberton: NHS reforms: From today the Coalition has put the NHS up for grabs
Owen Jones: Farewell to the NHS, 1948-2013: a dear and trusted friend finally murdered by Tory ideologues
An ever-useful reminder of the 60+ MPs who have or had links to companies involved in private healthcare
However, as The Staggers notes, the really frightening thing about today's cuts is that no one knows their combined impact. Polly Toynbee summarises their cumulative impact:
( longish quote under the cut )
There's an e-petition calling for a Cumulative Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform, and a New Deal for sick & disabled people based on their needs, abilities and ambitions.
This Government frightens me. They have no mandate and they don't care. This is going to be brutal and people are going to die because of it, and they still don't care.
ETA:
10 lies we're told about welfare
And on IDS claiming to be able to live on £53/week: You'll never live like common people and perhaps my favourite post on the "but of COURSE you can eat on £2/week!" argument.
“The revolution starts in the ATOS smoking area” - on welfare, addiction, and dependency
I am in a position to be most scared about the NHS. For the record, I love the NHS. I wrote about it a few years ago in the context of US debates on private/public healthcare and it fscking guts me that the NHS is being steadily dismantled. My experiences of it are somewhat less rosy now - involvement with a Gender Identity Clinic will do that to you - but I still think it's better than private healthcare and its failings are not due to it being a public, nationalised system. If anything, its problems are due to a culture of targets and commodification.
BMJ: The future of the NHS—irreversible privatisation?
Max Pemberton: NHS reforms: From today the Coalition has put the NHS up for grabs
Owen Jones: Farewell to the NHS, 1948-2013: a dear and trusted friend finally murdered by Tory ideologues
An ever-useful reminder of the 60+ MPs who have or had links to companies involved in private healthcare
However, as The Staggers notes, the really frightening thing about today's cuts is that no one knows their combined impact. Polly Toynbee summarises their cumulative impact:
( longish quote under the cut )
There's an e-petition calling for a Cumulative Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform, and a New Deal for sick & disabled people based on their needs, abilities and ambitions.
This Government frightens me. They have no mandate and they don't care. This is going to be brutal and people are going to die because of it, and they still don't care.
ETA:
10 lies we're told about welfare
And on IDS claiming to be able to live on £53/week: You'll never live like common people and perhaps my favourite post on the "but of COURSE you can eat on £2/week!" argument.
“The revolution starts in the ATOS smoking area” - on welfare, addiction, and dependency
