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| AMERICANS ARE KNOWN FOR BEINGSTEEL-HARD AND COLD-HEARTED SALESMEN. YET DODGY DAVE CAMERON FOLLOWS THEM AS LONG AS HE GETS HIS REWARD. JUST LIKE TONY BLAIR ANOTHER CHARACTERLESS CREATURE. THE ONLY ONE WHO SAID "NO" TO THE USA WAS LABOUR PM HAROLD WILSON AVOIDING A TERRIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE VIETNAM WAR New fear has risen because the great PM David Cameron held a secret meeting Thursday, 18th December, 2014 in Brussels with bosses of international corporations from private health industry. The very secrecy of a summit with people from private health industry tells us everything despite of Downing Street denial again that is would not affect the NHS but admitted it is a mega-deal. |
Update 27 Oct., 2019 -
The thread of an TTIP is still there; PM Johnson and Trump are still eager to sign TTIP
Johnson stated NHS is off the table but he changed his mind too many times to be trusted. Trump is determined to sign TTIP and NHS.
Update 23 Jan., 2017 -
President Donald Trump torn up the TTIP
UPDATE: 30 MAY, 2015 -- A vote was taken behind closed doors of which the public will not get information, yet it is the most life changing decision for the people if they decide to agree on the TTIP
UPDATE: 1 March, 2015 -- Accordingly to a report the NHS had not been taken out of the TTIP. Therefore, if the TTIP will be signed the NHS will be irreversibly private.
The acceptance of TTIP will not even put to the vote of the MPs least to the public yet it will be a complete sell out of sovereignty and NHS and Welfare State.
That is total dictatorship. The same people wants to introduce democracy in other countries. They are nothing but hypocritical.
The thread of an TTIP is still there; PM Johnson and Trump are still eager to sign TTIP
Johnson stated NHS is off the table but he changed his mind too many times to be trusted. Trump is determined to sign TTIP and NHS.
Update 23 Jan., 2017 -
President Donald Trump torn up the TTIP
UPDATE: 30 MAY, 2015 -- A vote was taken behind closed doors of which the public will not get information, yet it is the most life changing decision for the people if they decide to agree on the TTIP
UPDATE: 1 March, 2015 -- Accordingly to a report the NHS had not been taken out of the TTIP. Therefore, if the TTIP will be signed the NHS will be irreversibly private.
The acceptance of TTIP will not even put to the vote of the MPs least to the public yet it will be a complete sell out of sovereignty and NHS and Welfare State.
That is total dictatorship. The same people wants to introduce democracy in other countries. They are nothing but hypocritical.
The very fact that this summit with people connected to
private health industry, is held behind closed door in other words we will not
be told anything, Downing Street denying frantically it will affect the NHS and
yet admit it is a mega deal, tells everything.
Even a top Tory admitted that the NHS will be at the mercy
of predatory US healthcare firms. Trade
Minister Lord Livingston openly stated that it will not be necessary to exempt
the NHS from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement which
again tells everything. David Cameron will not rest until the NHS is destroyed
and he and his friends will have another ‘great deal’ made out of the sell-out.
Labour MP Graham Morris, who sits on the Commons health
committee warned: “This is a sinister trade deal. If it goes through without
any changes, it will make the privatisation of services like the NHS irreversible.”
Even Margaret Thatcher did not dare to destroy the Royal
Mail, gagged the Press and now the NHS but David Cameron is going a step further and put the last
nail into the coffin of the once great and proud country of Britain.
The Government stated that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partneship (TTIP) agreement will be worth
£100billion to the EU and £80billion to the US.
They did not mention how much it would be to them or Britain. However,
the TTIP has too many dangerous clauses in it and once signed binding forever. Britain and the EU would be a colony of
America. That was the real reason, all the time, about getting the United
Europe, military and financially wise, nothing whatsoever about the benefit for
the people.
The very clause that companies could sue Britain if any
Government decides to nationalise an industry again. This is pure dictatorship.
Lord Livingston grandiosely announced that there is no need
to exclude the NHS because it will not be impacted. Who is he kidding? Of course, he will be all right with his big
income and private insurance and so is the rest of the Elite. It is the average person who will not be able to
afford the private insurance and therefore not be treated just like in America. Once
the private insurances get the green light the contribution will be shooting up
like anything and the shares in the pockets of the Elite will increase and bring
multiple dividends. This is the real reason behind the sell-off of the NHS. We have to ask again: “Who is he kidding?”
All this wheeling and dealing which is nothing but Tory’s
way behind closed door is against democracy.
As Unite union chief Len McCluskey blasted: “The people of this country didn't vote for selling off our NHS and they did not vote to make the sell-off irreversible by giving US companies the right to sue us in secret courts.”
IT IS NOTHING BUT PURE DICTATORSHIP.
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There are about 80 NHS Trusts that are in deficit, have huge debts and are unlikely to get out of this situation without a big increase in NHS funding. The Government inquired a couple of years ago with German healthcare providers if they could take over these trusts (similar to how Hinchingbrooke was taken over). The German companies declined. To be frank, without an increase in government funding it is unlikely those NHS trusts can ever get out of debt, but I am sure this won't deter some US companies who, arrogantly, think that they know better than everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThere is one more thing to bear ion mind. Francis Maude has a little known plan called Mutuals In Health, this is being piloted with 9 trusts at the moment. Norman Lamb talks of this programme as "an alternative to privatisation", however Maude is more honest, he says "mutualism is privatisation". The way it will work has been shown by the civil service pension scheme that was public sector in 2010, then mutualised, and now it is 51% owned by a private company (ie it is a private company). Maude calls this "mutual joint venture".
In the case of NHS trusts it will work like this. The trusts will be mutualised with the assets (equipment, buildings) owned by the government. It will be the service that will be mutualised. The staff will be TUPE'd from the NHS to the new mutual. Within a year or so the mutual will enter a joint venture with a company (like the US companies Cameron was talking to). Initially this will be a minority holding. We have seen joint ventures in the NHS for many years now, but they have been restricted to private healthcare (for example, The Christie does private healthcare via a joint venture with HCA who paid for the private unit to be built). However, under this government joint ventures have been created for NHS treatment, usually the private company provides some building or equipment on the understanding that the hospital will treat the company's private patients with the facility (for example Clatterbridge has a recent joint venture where the company provided an expensive radiotherapy machine that Clatterbridge uses to treat NHS patients and the company's private patients).
Once the joint venture is created, it is a slippery slope until the company gets a majority holding. Bye bye public delivered NHS!
Thank you, Richard, for giving your time to write such an extensive and very informative comment. It is so heart breaking to see the NHS being destroyed bit by bit and through the back door. The contribution by the public is £106billion a year. Surely without those highly paid and useless executives it would not have gone into debts.and gave the Tories an excuse to bring in private companies which are nothing but after profit for the shareholders' dividends. Of course, those executives are Tories and needed a job. Then Cameron brought in consultants which took another chunk out of the NHS; to axe the nurses, doctors and workers. I also read that Cameron took out £40billion of the NHS for "medical commitments" whatever that meant. I am sure he used it to refurbish the private patients section which is by now 45 per cent of the beds available, according to some report.
ReplyDeleteThe only chance the public has now to vote for Labour as a majority to get it all back on the right footing otherwise the country is gone as it was.
Why does this and its secrecy not surprise me. If we do not vote these buggers out in 2015 perhaps we don not deserve better - eileen
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment and that is the only way to put the NHS back where it belongs, to the general public. I do not understand because National Insurance sums up to £106billion a year and tax £103billion. Is there some creaming going on somewhere?
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