Should Us Contractors Be Allowed Further Access To The Nhs In Exchange For Trade?

[Kromovaracun]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-nhs-us-trade-deal-talks-privatisation-healthcare-trump-a8198871.html

Theresa May has refused to rule out offering American healthcare businesses greater access to NHS contracts in future trade talks with the USA.

Which, presumably, means the government is considering it or at the very least is not opposed to it.

Do you think this is a good idea for securing trade deals?

[waterboatman]

NO!

[Old_Geezer]

Privatization should be reduced not contracted out for foreign countries.

[mikey4444]

NO !

[mikey4444]

No, and for lots of very good reasons. What if any of these Companies were to go bust, like Carillion ?

Who would step into the breach then ? The privatization of health care in Britain has gone far too far already.....and its time to call a stop.

[youngmafbog]

I'm not sure that it is the way to go but at the same time it is daft at early stages to be ruling anything out. That is the art of negotiations.

[douglas9401]

The useless articles running the show have reduced a once great nation to the status of a Monopoly player hanging on for grim death with only the income from Old Kent Road keeping the spark of hope alive.

Of course they'll sell off what little is left, grossly undervalued and with no protection for citizens, as usual.

[kvalidir]

No, no and no again.

[ToraToraTora]

NO! we should run the NHS more efficiently ourselves by making the necessary changes. Money seems to be the only variable that anyone considers when the NHS is discussed but it is not. The Labyrinthine administration and management needs looking at. The last thing we need is private companies leeching off the service. but some private company practices and costs saving initiatives can be transplanted to the public sector and the NHS is crying out for it. For many the NHS is purely there to provide them with a job and a chance at empire building, we need to re focus on the core purpose of the NHS, health care.

[Zacs-Master]

What if those foreign companies came in and streamlined the administration and management processes?

[naomi24]

What if it were not US companies, but EU companies?

[Zacs-Master]

But it isn’t Naomi. Why muddy the waters with imaginary and irrelevant scenarios?

[naomi24]

Just wondering whether EU companies might get a more positive reaction. I suspect they would.

[Zacs-Master]

Really, In the current circumstances?

[naomi24]

Who knows?

[Zacs-Master]

No one gauging by the reaction.

[naomi24]

Hmmm ... 10 minutes isn't long ... or it could be that foreign is okay as long as it's not American.

[-Talbot-]

naomi's Q is a valid enough question.
The French company that doesn't collect much recycling waste around here (most has to be put in the landfill bin) has just got another contract until 2025.

Less and less can go in our recycling bin ... the same company has had the contract 25 years... familiarity breeds contempt.


No ... to answer the question, we should get a grip of the NHS ourselves.

[Zacs-Master]

You seem to be inventing your own sideline arguments now. What merits your last comment? Or is it, as I suspect, a propos zilch?

[Zacs-Master]

Recycling waste efficiency by a French company has a bearing on the efficiency of an imaginary scenario whereby an un named EU country steps in to manage an unspecified portion of the NHS, does it?

Nice logic there.

I know fings ain’t wot they used to be but inventing spurious, and quite frankly ridiculous arguments ain’t the way forward.

[naomi24]

You seem to be having a bad day, Zacs.