tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263577133333272085.post7701697724813086065..comments2024-03-28T11:04:16.315+00:00Comments on Boffy's Blog: Why The NHS Cannot Protect Our Health - Part 2Boffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263577133333272085.post-69393209835461461692011-02-16T15:37:53.236+00:002011-02-16T15:37:53.236+00:00I'm suggesting that the idea that support for ...I'm suggesting that the idea that support for the NHS in its present State Capitalist form is unassailable is false. Now, what trend emerges from that I cannot say, I can only set out what I have set out previously, and will attempt to set out again. That is that workers should aspire to the kind of Health provision they were creating on their own voliiton in the 19th century. That is one in which workers make their own contributions into a Co-operative Insurance Fund, and that at a local level there are established Consumer based Co-operative Commissioning Panels, who then buy in Healthcare. I would prefer that workers begin to organise within the NHS, and take advantage of the opportunity the Tories are providing them as part of the Big Society Con, to turn it to their advantage and establish Workers Co-operatives that are able to provide the Healthcare Services that the Co-operative Commissioning Panels buy in.<br /><br />The Trades Unions who currently object to such an approach, in favour of a defence of State Capitalism, are hypocritical, because Trades Unions have always run their own healthcare provision via, their own Convalescent Homes etc., as well as their own Funds to cover such things.<br /><br />I recognise that obviously it is not possible to simply go from the present State capitalist set up to a socialist, co-operative system, but there are a number of possible strategies or routes via which the transition could be made. It could be that Worker Co-ops grow, as they are doing in Education, for instacne, and begin to link up into a large efficient, national Co-operative provider, which is commissioned by the existing arrangements. Or it could be that provision and commissioning on A Co-operative basis is developed in pockets, and linked together, for example. In every case, workers would have a strong incentive to ensure that any transition was as smooth, and painless as possible, in contrast to the changes being introduced by the Tories, which will only lead to chaos.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263577133333272085.post-77775525577460650012011-02-16T15:10:13.844+00:002011-02-16T15:10:13.844+00:00Re. the fourteen-point poll, are you suggesting th...Re. the fourteen-point poll, are you suggesting there's a trend towards this:<br /><br />http://www.newamerica.net/files/NSC%20Citizen%20Principles%20Paper%207-10-07.pdf<br /><br />He's suggesting an option in between private, employment-based insurance and single-payer.Jacob Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13595821621256547971noreply@blogger.com