Doctor: Health bill is the start of full privatisation of British National Health Services

[Hannah Bell]

The new NHS bill this week will lay the legislative foundations for the privatisation of the NHS.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley is acting with lightning speed, dismantling bits of the health service even before the bill becomes law.

GP commissioning groups are being established up and down the country. But this is not about handing budgets over to GPs—it is about getting them into private hands.

Handing the entire NHS budget across to the private sector in one shot would have been difficult for the Tories.

But they reckon that GP consortia will be their ideal halfway house, as the GPs are forced to look to the private sector for managerial support.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=23624


As you read, note the similarities to "No Child Left Behind"

Global game plan.

[RandomThoughts]

1. and V Chip program.

Social engineers think they could program society.

[snagglepuss]

2. Global game plan is right. nt

[suffragette]

3. "Our Austerity, Their Prosperity"

The UK students nailed it with that succinct banner.

And yep, that looks to be the agreed upon G8/G20 global game plan.

[shanti]

4. let's face it

the plan of the PTB is for ALL of us to go down, and it's going as planned.

[aquart]

5. Sell it all. Sell everything that isn't nailed down and then sell the nails.

Then nationalize. All of it. Redistributes the wealth wonderfully.

Fair's fair. They get what they want and then we get what we want. And it starts all over again.

[JCMach1]

6. Tories will be in for an arse-whipping next time around methinks

... not to mention what will happen with the LibDems.

[Axrendale]

7. This.

Coalition governments formed in the face of a Hung Parliament tend to be rather... unstable politically. For the sake of Great Britain and her people, one does hope that their next General Election will not be in the too distant future.

It is a delicious thought to contemplate: that the Tories might have just seen all the ground that they made up in the late Blair/Brown years go up in smoke.

We must hope...