NHS: The tories selling it to private US companies

[Secret Chief]

The tories are liars. Who knew it.
The NHS is NOT safe in their hands.
People need to know about this and get angry. The alternative is death by poverty.

NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

 

[Subduction Zone]

Muah ha ha! Money from the UK flowing into the US at the expense of the unhealthy! Just what we need to do, export our poor health care system to other countries.

When is Britain going to dump Trump Jr?

 

[Secret Chief]

When is Britain going to dump Trump Jr?

Once the covid and brexit omnishambles have subsided the tories will replace him with a shiny new turd.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Once the covid and brexit omnishambles have subsided the tories will replace him with a shiny new turd.

Sad but probably true. Politics tends to shift left and right in all countries. It is how progress is very slowly made. Britain is past due for a shift to the left.

 

[ChristineM]

The tories are liars. Who knew it.
The NHS is NOT safe in their hands.
People need to know about this and get angry. The alternative is death by poverty.

NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

The Tories have been selling of the profitable bits of the nhs for years so to me this comes as no shock

How is the NHS being Privatised?

 

[Valjean]

This is the age of neoliberal free trade and privatization, and it's war on Socialism and Democracy.
The capitalists have finally crawled back from their New Deal defeat.

 

[Secret Chief]

Sad but probably true. Politics tends to shift left and right in all countries. It is how progress is very slowly made. Britain is past due for a shift to the left.

Johnson will be glad to leave No.10. It was meant to be the biggest doss of his life and his biggest ego trip. The pandemic put paid to that.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The tories are liars. Who knew it.
The NHS is NOT safe in their hands.
People need to know about this and get angry. The alternative is death by poverty.

NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

You need to protest over this, and fight to keep this creeping toxin from taking over.
You don't want what we have here.

 

[Secret Chief]

You need to protest over this, and fight to keep this creeping toxin from taking over.
You don't want what we have here.

I agree. Come the summer / end of lockdown I'm hoping for a lot of protests.

 

[exchemist]

The tories are liars. Who knew it.
The NHS is NOT safe in their hands.
People need to know about this and get angry. The alternative is death by poverty.

NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

Hmm, I saw this.

What a lot of people do not seem to realise is that GP practices are private businesses. They always have been, since the foundation of the NHS. GPs are not salaried employees of the NHS.

Traditionally they were partnerships, as many law firms are. But there is nothing to stop them being larger incorporated businesses instead, so far as I can see.

So in a way this is a lot of fuss about nothing, based on a myth about how the NHS actually works.

I suppose there is room for concern that if a lot of GPs were to sign up to this model, one could find the NHS having to negotiate with some quite large companies supplying GPs to the nation, which might conceivably make it more expensive. But I think the case for harm needs to be made, rather than just assumed.

 

[Yerda]

The tories are liars. Who knew it.
The NHS is NOT safe in their hands.
People need to know about this and get angry. The alternative is death by poverty.

NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

That's it. Where is my pitchfork?