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Thread #167208 Message #4035310
Posted By: Iains
21-Feb-20 - 02:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: New rules for the coming pandemic
Subject: RE: BS: New rules for the coming pandemic
We have a problem with our NHS which is due to long-term underfunding by the Conservative government that has held power for the past ten years, as they prepare it for a take-over by the American private health industry. Of course the rubbish above presumes everyone is ignorant and are not capable of a little digging. THE LABOUR PARTY were the first to float the idea of privatising the NHS by selling parts of it off, starting more than two decades ago and hoping "by 2008 we could have as much as 40 percent in the private sector." Tony Blair took office in 1997, with the promise of removing “internal markets” in the NHS – the idea that Health Authorities ceased to run their hospitals, but “purchased” care from their own or other authorities hospitals. The Blair government, while leaving services free at the point of use, encouraged the outsourcing of medical services and under the Private Finance Initiative, an increasing number of hospitals were built, or rebuilt, by private companies too.
NHS hospital trusts are being crippled by the private finance initiative and will have to make another £55bn in payments by the time the last contract ends in 2050. One of Labours cunning wheezes.