The NHS is in imminent danger
of being handed over to American corporations.
And what that means to you and me is relatives, friends will be dying
or getting harmed preventably simply because an insurance company
has decided it doesn't want to pay for their care.
The power of doctors and nurses within the NHS to decide and make sure
you get the treatment you need is being removed.
The NHS bill will convert our NHS into an American style
managed care system where profit will be maximised
by denying patients care.
I've been to America I've studied their system and it abandons people
when they're at their most vulnerable.
Michael Moore made a documentary called Sicko about not the people
who don't have insurance but about the people who do have insurance,
and how badly they are treated.
"I got cervical cancer and I was denied through the insurance company
they said we're not paying for it because you're 22 and you shouldn't
be having cervical cancer you're too young."
The number one cause of household bankruptcy in America is medical
bills and most of those people going bankrupt had insurance.
"Larry had a heart attack and then Donna got cancer
and even though they had health insurance,
the co-pays and deductibles soon added up,
to the point where they could no longer afford to keep their home."
So private health insurance is no protection.
Those people who are not within the system go without care
or as I witnessed myself queue up in the middle of the night
for volunteer services provided by charities,
that's the future we are all facing.
Now we know the American system is twice as expensive
as what we spend on health care in this country
it delivers worse outcomes.
the third cause of death in hospitals is medical error,
so our government has decided to copy this totally dysfunctional,
endemically fraudulent and hugely expensive system.
It's difficult to understand why some of it is based on ideology,
but we know from recent contracts relating to the coronavirus
there is a financial self-interest with many of our politicians.
We've seen that with Tony Blair we've also seen that with Nick Clegg
who's now works with facebook.
So David Cameron we know for his work with Greensill
was being paid one million dollars per year for a part-time job
providing access to Westminster and Downing Street.
Nobody ever voted for the NHS to be privatised,
our politicians are constantly lying to us,
about how they value the NHS.
"We've tried to give the NHS as much as we possibly can."
There's not a week that goes by when I don't see the effects,
of declining services affecting my patients.
The health bill that's before parliament now is the culmination of a four decade long stealth
attack on the nhs this began under margaret thatcher the policy document was produced by
mps oliver letwin and john redwood in 1988 called britain's biggest enterprise and
they set out in that document how they wanted to transform the nhs into a private insurance system
like the american system without people noticing we had the toxic debt burden through private
finance initiative for the first time in the early 2000s the outsourcing of medical services by the
tony blair government and under the blair government they introduced something called
world-class commissioning and what that did was introduce large corporations such as mckinsey
the big four accountancy firms united healthy insurer to provide support for the nhs to
commission services and what the health bill 2021 will do is finally legitimize changes that
have been going on behind the surface where these corporations will be given legal footing to take
control of the budgets in particular the company united health with its subsidiary optum in control
united healthcare medicare advantage plans have so much to take advantage of
united healthcare can help you avoid financial surprises by helping you compare costs and doctor
quality ratings they have a presence across the world not only have they had the ex-president
of global expansion simon stephens running the nhs since 2014 indeed back in 2012 simon stevens
was advocating that a solution to all develop world's health problems was to copy the american
system but behind the scenes they've also been hired using their uk subsidiary optum to train
and brainwash leaders within the nhs and local councils in the ways of managed care
we're honored to have you as a member and we're committed to making sure that your experience
with us is a great one the private sector in the nhs we saw with the company carillion going bust
they were a major outsourcer of services to hospitals they were effectively running a
ponzi scheme under bidding for contracts they left with eight billion pound hole in their finances
which the taxpayer has had to pick up vanguard health which a few years ago had such an atrocious
record with cataract surgery that up to 50 of the patients they were dealing with had complications
they walked away from their contract and again the taxpayer and the nhs was left to
pick up the pieces we know that healthcare is best delivered by the public sector paid through by tax
first of all is far more efficient you don't need a parallel structure of bureaucracy for
collecting fees secondly everybody is entitled to care irrespective of their ability to pay
when they need care there is no privatized system in the world that delivers care
for those who can't afford it in america their system is failing individuals have left a patient
half naked on the city streets and it's about 30 degrees and the last thing england needs to do is
to copy that failure the most important thing we can do is to raise awareness of what's actually
going on without grassroots pressure we're going to lose the nhs we can't rely on our politicians
they need to be pressurized into doing the right thing this is a fight for our democracy
do we want our lives ruled by corporations with the power to deny us health care or do we want a
democracy where the politicians ask and respect our wishes we need to rediscover that spirit
of fighting for our rights and insisting that the nhs is restored to a proper public service
renationalized and no longer being used as a profit stream for private companies
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