Austerity in UK will help Private Sector, including health care...education, damn

[maryf]

Oceania is well on its way to becoming a reality, must have the same hc for everyone, right?? Private HC for the UK!!! ooohooo!! :sarcasm:
These people better start the fight now...

Austerity Drive Will Hand Billions to Private Sector
Outsourcing firms are preparing for bonanza of contracts to provide everything from binmen to back office bureaucrats

by Robert Booth, Richard Wachman and Jeevan Vasagar

A government efficiency drive aimed at slashing spending in town halls and boosting productivity in the health service is likely to deliver billions of pounds of new business for private companies, the Guardian has learned.

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Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: "Some private operators are going to have a field day, making a fortune from a system which will offer less public accountability." The appetite for outsourcing is so great that private firms are even vying to help set the curriculum and educational ethos of academy schools.


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The US health giants Humana, UnitedHealth, Aetna and MCCI are all understood to be interested in healthcare contracts that could flow from a new commissioning system in which GPs may be given the power to buy in services from any health group or hospital that is properly accredited. Minnesota-based UnitedHealth has already become a key adviser to primary care trusts and is running two GP practices in Derbyshire and three in London.

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"Private health already has a small role in the NHS , but we don't want it to grow," said Karen Jennings a spokeswoman for Unison, the public services union. "The danger is that private companies will become so powerful that they will be able to determine what services are provided and how much they charge."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/16/austerity-drive-billions-private-sector

the private companies have to be fought in England as here...

editted to fix link...read the whole thing folks!! (thanks to a favorite spectre)

[marmar]

1. The Global Shock Doctrine is in full effect......

nt

[maryf]

2. "The private sector likes the clarity it has seen from the new government,"

said James Hulme, spokesman for the New Local Government Network.

Gives me major chills...

[dipsydoodle]

3. We've had private healthcare companies here

since at least the '70's. AMI was the first from memory. So its nothing new. OK for some particularly those who want individual room accomodation. Personally I'd rather have others to chat too.

[maryf]

5. This article is about England, of course we've had private health care

but this refers to our health insurance companies going for the UK's National Health Plan, and privacy striking all the public sector's in England...my garbage collector is private here, education is becoming more and more private here, and we all know about health care. The private sector is scoping out other countries. Please read the whole article at the link! thanks.

[dipsydoodle]

9. I had read it

I'm English and I live here. Some privatisation has been going on for years - particularly under our previous crack pot government.

[maryf]

17. Gotcha...

you know more about than I do, but does seem the NHS is under serious attack...problem with text, things get misunderstood! :)

[Bloofer_Lady]

4. It looks like our corporations now want a big slice of your pie....

....and your government is going to give it to them. Shameful.

[maryf]

6. Thanks I'm in the US...

but my sympathies, concerns, are global. I hate to see all the good public systems in other countries be decimated by the private corporations...a friend of mine is moving to England to get decent health care, hope he doesn't have to move again...

[Bloofer_Lady]

8. Hopefully people will protest in Europe over this.

If they don't speak out they are going to end up just like us.

[maryf]

14. Have you been following the Greek protests?

Weekly at least for months...will try to get you some links later...

[Bloofer_Lady]

19. I have seen those on tv.

One thing that the Europeans excel at is protesting. A lot of the people in the US would just sit on their asses and say 'Oh well.'.

[maryf]

23. Covering their eyes...

...or maybe saying "Oh just wait and see..." How do we get the people out there? How do we get them to see how bad its gotten? Its like the frog in the pot, drop him in already boiling water he hops out; heat him slowly he's cooked...are we done yet? Have we had enough???

[maryf]

7. This thread should be read for parallels on austerity

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8768645

[conspirator]

10. Without free NHS the UK will become the worse dumpster in europe to live n/t

[dipsydoodle]

12. This is nothing

to do with the NHS being "free". Our NHS has used some private facilities for years.

[maryf]

15. We don't have a NHS...

Except for Medicare and the VA System, which have been fantastic, of course they are trying to decimate them too...

[dajoki]

11. Not enough money in the US?

Our private companies must now resort to invading others.

K&R

[maryf]

16. Never enough money

never enough power...privatization, profit mongering knows no borders...those are just for the peons to keep them from joining together...

[Starry Messenger]

13. k & r

[maryf]

18. Wonder if your pirate man will try to "help out"

with the education curriculae over there...

[Starry Messenger]

20. Oh I'm sure.

He's a helper! lol I know I've read articles on charter schools starting in England. There is probably a very short chain of connection, at any rate.

[maryf]

22. Very likely

but not as short as the ones around our necks... :)

[Hannah Bell]

21. k

[blindpig]

24. k&r