Health service in England to be privatised as Tories pass misnamed ‘Health and Care’ Bill
Snout in the trough (all right – bucket): many Conservative MPs have shares in private health companies that will profit from this legislation.
So that’s that. The National Health Service in England is to be carved into 42 smaller organisations that will be passed into the hands of private, profit-making health companies:
🚨By 294 to 244 votes, MPs have just passed the Health & Care Bill 🚨
We are appalled but we're not giving up. Our fight to #ScrapNHSBill doesn't end here…
In fact our movement to halt + reverse NHS privatisation is just beginning, join us: https://t.co/pESpdikW2G pic.twitter.com/wt6dlSBZ27
— EveryDoctor (@EveryDoctorUK) November 23, 2021
The boards of the new Integrated Care Systems, that commission services, will be dominated by profit-grubbers, and they’re not going to give the non-profit organisation a chance to take money out of their shareholders’ pockets.
This means the duty to provide a comprehensive health service is being abolished. The quality of healthcare in all parts of England will plummet as a result.
The only hope now is for the Lords to bounce the Bill back with significant amendments. This is a possibility as the Tories are in a minority there. But the Commons will most likely just send it back with the amendments reversed because many Tory MPs have shares in profit-making health firms.
Let’s also spare a moment to remind ourselves that Jeremy Corbyn, as Labour leader, warned everybody in the United Kingdom that this was the Conservative plan, with more than 450 pages of evidence, in the run-up to the 2019 election.
His words were ridiculed and Boris Johnson’s Tories were elected with a landslide majority after around 13 million people voted for them.
By a curious coincidence, the NHS waiting list is expected to swell past 13 million over the next few months – due entirely to the same Tory government’s utter indifference to your health.
Many of those waiting more than a year, in pain and suffering, for routine procedures will be the very same Conservative voters who put Johnson and his raiders in power. Do they now have buyers’ remorse?
Not a bit of it!
Like petulant children, Tory voters hate being told they were wrong and will self-harm as a response to being told how to help themselves.
Trust me on that.
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