The insurance companies interests extend beyond the US and are becoming entrenched in the UK..deja vu for the large profits over there with insurance companies that have been seen here? Many of the players are the same. BD
But the NHS is being destroyed by attrition, and if the latest "reforms" are not stopped, it will be too late to erect barricades. On 5 October, the Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, approved a list of 14 companies that will advise on and take over the "commissioning" of NHS services. They will be given influence, if not eventually control, over which treatments patients receive and who provides them. They are assured multimillions in profits.
They include the US companies UnitedHealth, Aetna and Humana. These totalitarian organisations have been repeatedly fined for their notorious role in the American health-care system. These companies are new Labour's friends. Simon Stevens, Blair's former health policy adviser, is now a CEO at UnitedHealth. Julian Le Grand, writing in the Guardian as a distinguished professor, gives his learned approval to the "reforms" - he, too, was Blair's adviser.
This has caused a wholly unnecessary "financial crisis" that is the catch-22 rationale for allowing more profiteers to take over what was a Labour government's greatest achievement. Will we allow them to get away with it?
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