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Both Labour And Tories Want An End To The NHS And Profit To Determine Healthcare In The UK

'The National Health Service was established in the United Kingdom in 1948 as a universal, comprehensive service free at the point of delivery, which is publicly provided, funded, and accountable. Market incrementalism in England has eroded this system over three decades.

The recently enacted Health and Care Act (2020) will erode it further.

This article first explains briefly how legislation and policy initiatives in 1990, 2003, and 2012 furthered development of the market and private provision of health services, and then describes the main structural changes in the new Act and their implications. England is now moving decisively toward a marketised, two-tier, mixed-funding system with several similarities to the United States.'

These words start a unique and solid analysis of the state of the Labour Party and the Tory Party when it comes to their working to dismantle the NHS, which began under Thatcher.

Despite their having the only comprehensive public statements on the NHS, the Lib-Dems were also responsible for the massive decline in the health service of this country.

This report by Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick, is all you need to read in order to understand where our NHS was, and where it is headed to - an American based two-tier healthcare system based on private healthcare insurance!

Despite Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer's public claims, they have every intention of having the private healthcare sector run the NHS, answerable only to the biggest quango of them all, NHS England, and with no political responsibility to provide a healthcare system for the people of this country; after the 2012 'Lansley' Act removed the responsibilty to do so from the Health and Care Secretary's responsibilities.

Further prove of this of course is the fact that Labour in particular are now being funded by donations from private equity and private healthcare monetary gifts as well as the 'loaning' or personnel at no cost to work in Streeting's and Starmer's research offices.

Their healthcare policies are now being determined by the likes of private healthcare lobbyists and Alan Milburn, late of the PFI and NHS privatisation fiascos of the Blair Governments.

See: NHS Privatisation News Archive

The report goes into the fine detail of successive Government policies on the NHS, proving that politicians are no friend to the NHS!

Conclusion of the Report Are Stark:

'The Health and Care Act 2022 cements the major realignment of the relations between the state and the public that has been a long time in the making.

Parliament has stood back and handed over most decision-making and power to unaccountable entities who will decide what services will be provided.

This outsourcing of control over large sums of public money will also increase the opportunities for cor-
ruption. Health services in England will come to resemble those in the United States, where the state has also opted out of health care organization and direct provision to become an outlier among the majority of advanced democracies, distinguishable by high costs, inequality, and injustice.

With successive governments, think tanks, and the mainstream media repeatedly denying that the NHS is being privatised—and hiding behind “service integration” and the pandemic—these consequences are already becoming apparent.

Public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest since 1997. Nevertheless, at the same time, the public still overwhelmingly supports its founding principles. This provides a promising basis for continuing the vital and sustained campaigns to rebuild the NHS in England.'

You can download the FULL report which is published under the Creative Commons license, from the Unionsafety E-Library or by clicking the image of the report above right.

Source: Sage / International Journal of Health Services / KONP / unionsafety

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