Jeremy Hanson blows a raspberry at Katy Gallagher over waiting times

dungfungus said :

bundah said :

There is a serious need for this Government to fix the problems they have created and get our health system back to being one of the best in the country not one of the worst,” Mr Hanson concluded.

Sounds great in theory but are taxpayers prepared to foot the bill to get adequate outcomes? Personally, as a left wing socialist, i’m more than happy to pay more tax to get an optimum health system but i believe i’m in the minority.

Is there such a thing as a “right wing socialist”? I am thinking Joseph Stalin perhaps.

From Wikipedia

Conservative or right-wing socialism[1][2] was given a definition by Jesús Huerta de Soto as a type of socialism in which institutional aggression is employed to maintain the social status quo and the privileges certain people or groups of people enjoy.[3]

The term has been used by right-wing movements and politicians to describe support for social solidarity and paternalism as opposed to individualism, commercialism, and laissez faire economics.[4][5] The fundamental objective of “right-wing socialism” is to maintain the status quo by preventing the free exercise of entrepreneurship and creative human action from disrupting the pre-established framework of social organization.[3] It supports social hierarchy and certain people and groups to hold higher status in such a hierarchy.[4]

It has also been used to indicate a centrist divide between Marxism-Leninism and a social democratic type of socialism, as in Japan.

bundah said :

There is a serious need for this Government to fix the problems they have created and get our health system back to being one of the best in the country not one of the worst,” Mr Hanson concluded.

Sounds great in theory but are taxpayers prepared to foot the bill to get adequate outcomes? Personally, as a left wing socialist, i’m more than happy to pay more tax to get an optimum health system but i believe i’m in the minority.

Is there such a thing as a “right wing socialist”? I am thinking Joseph Stalin perhaps.

Except the walk in centre is really popular with the electorate and very successful – therefore practically untouchable. Otherwise, I like the cut of Mr Hansen’s jib and suggest he concentrate on the problems, not the sucesses (even if the successes have flow on issues).

There is a serious need for this Government to fix the problems they have created and get our health system back to being one of the best in the country not one of the worst,” Mr Hanson concluded.

Sounds great in theory but are taxpayers prepared to foot the bill to get adequate outcomes? Personally, as a left wing socialist, i’m more than happy to pay more tax to get an optimum health system but i believe i’m in the minority.

Who needs a health system that works when you can have giant crappy Art everywhere?