Wes Streeting has dismissed ‘dystopian’ weight-loss claims but here’s an actual GP to debunk his words and warn about plans to privatise more of the health service.
The health secretary told the BBC the jabs were part of a broader healthcare plan, adding that he was “not interested in some dystopian future where I involuntarily jab unemployed people who are overweight”.
“There’s a lot of evidence already that these jabs combined with changes to diet and exercise can help people to reduce their weight but also prevent cardiovascular disease and also diabetes which is game-changing,” Streeting said.
It’s interesting that he is actually admitting that these are drugs for diabetes that are being passed off as weight loss medicine.
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But veteran pro-NHS campaigner Dr Bob Gill said the side-effects of the treatment were being ignored in a rush to force people to take it or lose social security benefits.
He also warned that Streeting is desperate to carve up the public health service and deliver it into the hands of private, profit-making firms that want to keep people ill in order to create a market for their treatments:
Streeting’s boss, prime minister Keir Starmer, has just (today: Monday, October 21, 2024) launched a consultation on the future of the NHS.
It will be interesting to see how this consultation is phrased and whether it offers us the choice of having services provided by private providers or the public service, or simply offers us a choice without saying that the more attractive-seeming option is an excuse to give services to privateers.
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Wes Streeting has dismissed ‘dystopian’ weight-loss claims but here’s an actual GP
Wes Streeting has dismissed ‘dystopian’ weight-loss claims but here’s an actual GP to debunk his words and warn about plans to privatise more of the health service.
The health secretary told the BBC the jabs were part of a broader healthcare plan, adding that he was “not interested in some dystopian future where I involuntarily jab unemployed people who are overweight”.
“There’s a lot of evidence already that these jabs combined with changes to diet and exercise can help people to reduce their weight but also prevent cardiovascular disease and also diabetes which is game-changing,” Streeting said.
It’s interesting that he is actually admitting that these are drugs for diabetes that are being passed off as weight loss medicine.
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But veteran pro-NHS campaigner Dr Bob Gill said the side-effects of the treatment were being ignored in a rush to force people to take it or lose social security benefits.
He also warned that Streeting is desperate to carve up the public health service and deliver it into the hands of private, profit-making firms that want to keep people ill in order to create a market for their treatments:
Streeting’s boss, prime minister Keir Starmer, has just (today: Monday, October 21, 2024) launched a consultation on the future of the NHS.
It will be interesting to see how this consultation is phrased and whether it offers us the choice of having services provided by private providers or the public service, or simply offers us a choice without saying that the more attractive-seeming option is an excuse to give services to privateers.
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