{"id":20301,"date":"2013-04-25T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20301"},"modified":"2013-04-25T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:04:35","slug":"last-night-the-lords-voted-to-privatise-the-nhs-and-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/25\/last-night-the-lords-voted-to-privatise-the-nhs-and-this-is-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Last  night the Lords voted to privatise the NHS. And this is why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the Lords approved the regulations that will effectively\u00a0privatise\u00a0the NHS, and this diagram from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neweconomics.org\/sites\/neweconomics.org\/files\/public_private_full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">latest\u00a0New Economics Foundation \/\u00a0Tax Justice Network mythbuster shows why<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-25-at-17.59.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20302\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-04-25 at 17.59.41\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-25-at-17.59.41.png\" width=\"691\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-25-at-17.59.41.png 691w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-25-at-17.59.41-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-25-at-17.59.41-515x300.png 515w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-25-at-17.59.41-200x116.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the NHS privatised\u00a0companies\u00a0can cream off the NHS budget for themselves and we'll move towards US cost levels, inevitably, as the cost of admin and litigation will spiral out of\u00a0control with no gain in healthcare resulting.<\/p>\n<p>That's why the Lords voted for privatisation: they were out to help their friends.<\/p>\n<p>And we'll all pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>Weep quietly. That's all you can do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the Lords approved the regulations that will effectively\u00a0privatise\u00a0the NHS, and this diagram from the latest\u00a0New Economics Foundation \/\u00a0Tax Justice Network mythbuster shows why:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/04\/25\/last-night-the-lords-voted-to-privatise-the-nhs-and-this-is-why\/\"><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":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301","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=20301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}