From an FT mail this morning:
That's the screwed up world of neoliberal health care for you.
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This kind of priority is moving us to a state in which health & healthcare becomes a private privilege and no longer a public good. How we act towards those communities affected by malaria is profoundly connected to the future of the NHS.
Did you see yesterday’s headlines-3 out of four hospitals working safely?
No? Neither did I. I did see one in four not working safely. Why do I get the feeling we are being softened up for further changes?
Further down……
“Sensibly, the UK’s National Health Service does not prescribe for it”
True, although:
“[research] money also came from the public purse, namely the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council”
Which the MRC says also benefits burn victims and cancer patients. What I find more interesting is the fact that this blog post doesn’t mention who said it – Bill Gates.
All the private health companies will want to cherry pick the most profitable cases. Get them in, get them out!! They won’t want to know about long term illnesses that cost a lot of money to treat. That isn’t profitable, so we will eventually end up with a 2 tier health service, one where private medicine takes the most profitable cases and the unprofitable ones left to the state, except the state will have less money to deal with these cases as the private hospitals with be creaming off a lot of state money as profits.
They already are.
In the past ten years the amount of work farmed-out to private healthcare is quite amazing.
Dental surgery used to be referred to a hospital, now it is referred to small private dental surgery centres.
Physiotherapy, now 5-courses-free-pay-for-anymore.
Flu jabs: Tesco (with clubcard points)(no joke, it’s cheaper to send people to tesco than in-surgery treatment).
Even hip and knee replacement is being referred to private hospitals, and paid by the local ccg.
My local hospital now refuses paediatric emergency treatment and sends cases on a 20-mile trip.
Ambulances are courtesy of a private company/ies.
GP surgeries are being sold to private healthcare management…..doubtless the profit will end-up in the virgin isles.
The list is large and increasing in size. In less than five years it will be irreversible. Labour was, and is, an enthusiastic supporter of the status quo.
If you’re worried about getting bald you should drink more.
Just think of famous drunks; Peter O’Toole, George Best, Jeffrey Bernard, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Shane MacGowan, Keith Floyd, not a slaphead amongst them.
Didn’t work in my case-although, I stopped drinking years ago and now i am balding-so maybe you are right -not good advice, though!
Don’t worry once all the mega banks swoop in like Hooded Egyptian vultures, following Carney’s invitation, they’ll be offering loans for medical treatment. We’re now at the pecking flesh from the carcass stage of wealth extraction.
We’re at the “extracting the insides of bones” stage now….the vultures have picked the outside clean…..