Honestly Sukerkin, I don't think capitalism is the problem. Nothing under the control of the government, which means greedy corrupt politicians is going to work well, that includes healthcare and oversight of criminal abuses of business. As far as healthcare is concerned, you have too many layers between the patient and the doctor because the government is responsible for running the system. it is too easy for people to not care, or to push the job off on another layer of people remote from the actual patient and their needs. Like any other business that actually does it's job we'll, direct responsibility to the customer and direct consequences from that contact are the only way you will ever get decent service from the business wether it is a doctor, or a bank. You will never see quality behavior when politicians and their appointed beuracrats are in charge of making the decisions. There are too many ways they can't be held responsible, for bad decisions. hen change needs to happen, there is no incentive to make them quickly, because again, the consequences will never be able to touch the people who fail to make them quickly because of the layers between patient and decision maker.
Particularly so when the real economy is raided to pay for the failures of those who play in the markets. That is why there is no recovery to be found in those countries where the bankers have been paid for their mistakes rather than being made to pay for their mistakes.
Who is making the decision to pay the banks for their mistakes...the politicians...
The Problem is that the politicians have too much power, and that they can be bought without real consequences when they are caught. To fix the system, you need to reduce the power of the politicians...they are the point where the problem starts. Here in the states, the politicians create a high tax rate...to generate revenue...no...because lower tax rates bring in more money. They want high tax rates so that businesses have to go to them to get exemptions, thus making the politicians powerful and forcing businesses to buy their protection. Control politicians more effectively, and you solve the majority of the problem. It takes corrupt politicians to rig the system...
But he added: "Many GP practices are struggling to cope with a combination of government targets, falling resources and rising workload."
Health Minister Lord Howe said: "The local NHS has a legal requirement to make sure high quality out-of-hours care is in place.
"If this is not happening, it is totally unacceptable and we expect action to be taken immediately to improve these services."
Government targets, falling resources and rising workload...all will be traced to foolish government policies from people in the government remote from the actual patient and doctor in the hospital. Centralizing the process in the government just centralizes and mainstreams the problems. To fix the system, you have to get the politicians and their minions out of it...They should be no more than the police officers of the system to make sure no one is being cheated or abused...everthing else should be in private hands...then, individual cases of problems will occur, but it won't be throughout the whole system...and the government will have the resources and the focus to work on the actual problem...not worrying about how many hours doctors need to work or how many patients per hour a nurse has to have under her care...which no beuracrat in an office in a government building will have any real clue about because they don't know what is actually happening in particular hospitals in particular wings of those hospitals on specific days or nights when more or fewer people will be coming in for treatment based on the number and type of people in the community the hospital is in. The guy in the Department of patient care will never know that on thursday nights in this particular community they get more patients and thus need more nurses on duty between 7 and 11, but on Monday between 2 and 9 they have almost no patients coming in and need fewer nurses and doctors on call...why...no one knows but that is the pattern at that hospital. The beuarcrat can't make a detailed decision like that...he just decides that all nursers in all hopitals need to see X number of patients everyday, regardless of the realities on the ground, because X makes sense to him...even though his predecessor thought the real number should be Y because they thought it was a better number...see the problem...