Good point. At my last company just scanning thousands of current and former employee records to PDF and verifying the results (to keep as backup) was a major undertaking.
And I don’t think anyone in their right mind would want to be the “test case” when it comes to getting creative with the law. That’s why they don’t color outside the lines when it comes to HIPAA.
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Indeed many years of undermining and underfunding contributed; plus elaborate attempts to privatize via the back door the most glaring being the so called Private Finance Initiative, which is basically a transfer of public money direct into private hands, not even really for medical services. I think the IT side had the same kind of issues and tampering.
Even then my experience is very different from that of your friends and the problem for Conservative and centrist Labour governments has been the value placed in the NHS which it continues to deliver really, free at the point of use. Perhaps for your friends it was a case of ‘the grass is always greener’. Sometimes you hear that too from folk with high expectations and often to be blunt, not quite the talents or skills they imagine they have. My anecdotes don’t coincide with yours though might be a better way to put it.
I assume some of your friends trained in the UK on public money paid it all back when they got here. Only jokin’ 
I would also appreciate if this reply isn’t flagged as ‘inappropriate’, if it is I shall certainly contact the moderators.
I love “Wait But Why” blog, and Tim Urban covers some of these topics, this time selfishly but still true:
I just saw an ad for another company called “Forward” which is trying to change the way healthcare is done.
I probably won’t be a customer for awhile, because I have job-provided healthcare, but I like new concepts.
This has gotten pretty far off-topic. Gonna close the thread. Thanks yall.
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