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American here.
Fight them, tooth and nail.
If I fell on my sidewalk today, it would cost me $768 for the ambulance to show up and $24.50 per mile to the hospital. It is 8.2 miles to the nearest hospital that is in my network. If I was unconscious and they brought me to an out of network hospital, I'd be financially ruined.
Maybe if they reduce the funding again it will fix it. >

We can say with high assurance by now that running healthcare systems to near full capacity in 'normal' times, without ability to absorb seasonal fluctuations, is a shit model.
And the structural inability to adjust that capacity over time to respond to a longer term public health challenges is also a shit model.
Maybe, finally, senior managers and deputy ministers of these systems will succeed with funding for prevention services to stem the tide? Since these other models are proven to be shit.
How much does an ER visit cost? Compared to how much a mask costs, or how much street-level harm reduction costs? >

After years of Tory mismanagement and intentional underfunding the crisis is nearly ripe enough to replace more of the NHS with more shitty private healthcare