{"id":13732,"date":"2012-01-19T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13732"},"modified":"2012-01-19T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:09:53","slug":"all-you-needed-to-know-about-nhs-reform-is-that-the-rating-agencies-are-going-to-assess-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/19\/all-you-needed-to-know-about-nhs-reform-is-that-the-rating-agencies-are-going-to-assess-success\/","title":{"rendered":"All you needed to know about NHS reform is that the rating agencies are going to assess success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have argued for a long time that the Tories are privatising the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>They of course deny it.<\/p>\n<p>But the new that ratings agencies - the discredited\u00a0Standard\u00a0&amp; Poors, Moody's and Fitch - are to rate the success of\u00a0hospitals\u00a0in future really says all that needs to be\u00a0known\u00a0about The Tories' objectives: the plan is very\u00a0clearly\u00a0to prepare businesses for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Ignore\u00a0clinical\u00a0quality, care or any other factor that impacts health outcomes; just look to the financial bottom line. It's a sad indictment of their bankrupt philosophy and their failure to tell the truth. No wonder almost all, right\u00a0across\u00a0the medical professions, are\u00a0opposed\u00a0to this reform which is already happening despite having not a shred of legislative backing as yet.<\/p>\n<p>The contempt the Tories have shown for\u00a0parliament\u00a0is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0contempt\u00a0for the rest of us staggering.<\/p>\n<p>And we'll end up paying, as the\u00a0Americans\u00a0do, vastly more for significantly worse health outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have argued for a long time that the Tories are privatising the NHS. They of course deny it. But the new that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/19\/all-you-needed-to-know-about-nhs-reform-is-that-the-rating-agencies-are-going-to-assess-success\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}