In post
after post I have went on about the ideological drive of this
government to privatise everything in an attempt to recapitalise the
corporate Mafia. This drive will change the way we live, will remove
everything from public control into the hands of that corporate
Mafia. It would appear that most people seem to think this means an
array of businesses but don't connect this ideology to the health
service. It's as if we are lulled into a sense of complacency
believing that they can't privatise the health service. However we
are just months away from having our National Health Service
privatised for ever. The government's Health and Social Care Bill, if
passed in to law, will mean the end of our free care at the point of need,
Health Service. Our National Health Service will be opened up to
market place competition between the big corporate beasts that seek
profit before anything else. It means that those parts of the Health
Service that don't make a profit will fall by the wayside, services
like long term caring treatment, care of the elderly etc..
Sixty years of free health care when you need it, will have been wiped out
by a piece of legislation pushed through by a bunch of public school
millionaire thugs who are working in the best interests of their
millionaire friends in the corporate world. Neither the Conservatives
or the Lib Dems had the privatising of the National Health Service in
their manifestos. Neither of these parties have a mandate to
privatise the National Health Service. No matter how they dress this
bill up, it will not change the facts on the ground, big business
will control the health service if this becomes law. Corporate this
and corporate that, will control the shape, direction and content of
the health service, it will no longer be OUR National Health Service,
it will Health and Pharmaceuticals PLC.
If you in any way think you live in a democracy, then this must be
wrong on all counts. The public never asked for nor wants a corporate
health service. The public never voted on or for a corporate health
service, but that is what you are going to get unless you stop this
bill becoming law. This can only be stopped by mass protests and mass
lobbying of MPs, by the trade unions getting behind the public and
organising to stop this decimation of our National Health Service.
Grass roots organisations should for the time being, abandon other
causes and direct their abilities and efforts to stopping this
corporate grab to turn our National Health Service into a billion
pounds gravy train for the shareholding parasites. This bill will
become law in just a few months and then it will be too late, the
National Health Service will be no more. Three months is not a lot of
time but it is all we have.
