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On the 24th of April the House of Lords voted in favor of privatization of the NHS. It took place with little publicity from the main stream media. Had the main stream media done their job in informing the people of extremely important matters like this, the public may well have been able to take some form of action that would make clear to the government that the privatization of the NHS is not what the British public wanted. In fact a referendum would surely have quashed the government's plans. But this is not the most disappointing thing about this situation. More disappointing is the governments ability to get away with this vote whilst keeping it away from the knowledge of the majority of the public. The evidence is clear. The government knew the public would have voted against this in a referendum. They took action to keep the details away from the public.
Here are a list of facts you should have been told by the government before they decided to privatize your NHS.
1..Approximately one third of all the Lords and MPs that voted in favor have interests in private health companies.
This interest would involve ownership or running the company or both.
The interests these Lords and MPs have varies.
Some own private equity companies that own private health businesses.
Some own shares in health care companies.
Some own or have part ownership on companies that buy patents related to new health treatments.
Some own or have part ownership in businesses that specialize in financing private healthcare businesses.
So as you can see, a third who voted in favor of privatization of the NHS are going to be able to profit from it's privatization.
I don't think this is any one's idea of democracy.
2..Substantial debt will be added to the Health Service.
All kinds of investment businesses will be used to buy NHS contracts and services. Although Lords will be involved in buying up these services........They will be using debt from investment banks........The risk involved in this debt however will be removed from those directly involved, including the banks onto the public.......Because pension funds will be used to pay off the debt. This means the Lords and private equity companies can be 'successful' themselves whilst regardless of how successful the business is. Executives and owners of a business can benefit from debt being added. These people are simply a cost of the business. A cost that can be funded by debt. When the debt gets out of control it is the people payiing in to pension funds who will lose their investment, not the Lords, private Equity companies, or the banks. .....Does this explain why they borrow the money rather than using their own? ....There is no risk to the borrower or bank.... Only to pension funds.
3..Services provided by the NHS will be subjected to a tendering procedure which means existing organisations including charities which carry out healthcare will have to bid against the new debt backed businesses.
This is a quite important one.......
Just say Marie Currie Cancer care was in a situation where the charity organisation was bidding against one of the private medical for a service Marier Currie are providing at the moment........
Marie Currie may have to offer a financial incentive to the government in order to secure the business. Remember the farce over the contract renewal between Virgin and First rail service providers? First initially won the bid, simply because they were willing to borrow more money to pay the government for the contract.Although after a lot of fuss by Richard Branson and others, the bids are still awaiting review! The bidding process has been proved a failure, but the government has not admitted this.
This system for awarding contracts is no different to just legalizing bribery. But the NHS is going to be up against this legalized corruption.
The other problem is that because the private companies will on the whole be backed by pension funds, removing risk from the banks- Access to money from banks is easier for them. They will have better chances to win contracts.....They will be able to spend fortunes on glossy PR Campaigns that will deceive the public........But the charities could be put at risk and face closure..........But when the private companies screw up the service......Collapse due to debt.........Reduce their services by two thirds due to rising costs.......In other words, provide services to a fraction of the patients that their charity backed counterparts used serve........The charity organisations may be unable to pick up the pieces because they have lost funding and donations. Then we will be left with no Public health service, no private or even charity driven service.
4..The private companies will be able to cherry pick from the NHS, choosing the health services which are the easiest to make a profit from.
Potentially profit making NHS Services which could have helped carry the NHS forward as a public service will be lost to the profit vultures. Banks will want to get on the 'payrolls' of these businesses and contracts. But tax payers will be left to foot the bill for services regarding the old and disabled. Because these people are less likely to be able to pay for their health care personally.
5..Tax payers will still be paying for what will be both price inflated and reduced services.
Tax payers paying national insurance will be paying for services to private companies. The higher staff costs. The many more executives that will be in the health service. And all the banks and financiers and their investors. The reality of this is quite clear. The services are going to be unaffordable to tax payers. They will be cut as a national health service. If you need the services of these private companies in years to come you will have to have cash to them.........Or suitable health insurance.........It's just as well the Lord's have thought of this and have investments in various insurance companies that specialize in health insurance !
6..Tax payers have, and still do pay for education and training for health professionals who are being poached by the new private companies.
The private companies and the NHS are currently in competition for staff and will be more so as Section 75 rolls into action. Private companies will be able to pay more staff for two reasons;
a).....Businesses they are involved in will charge a premium to what will on the whole be services to the more wealthy among us.
b)......The businesses can feed off a wealth of debt from banks and investors.
7..Due to what will certainly be a reduced public health service, the public will be forced to pay for their healthcare where the healthcare would be free today.
As the costs of the private services rise.....And they will rise to pay the additionally executives, investors and of course debts, these services will be with held from the NHS as the NHS pulls plug on funding (Or signifiantly raises taxes to continue to pay for them).
8..A & E is not likely to prove popular with these businesses, so will stay public. But because hospitals will lose funding and staff due to losing their payment for other services, A & E departments are likely to face closure due to lack of funding.
9..Times for people receiving healthcare will differ considerably. Private care companies have an incentive to keep people in hospital whilst they have money to pay for their care. Whilst those who have little money and are suffering from an illness may find they can not get any care at all. This is known to be a problem all over the world where healthcare is privatized.
The U.S. pays over twice the amount that we pay per capita for health care and health insurance combined. It is clear that private health companies have incentives to keep the wealthy or those with health insurance in their medical centers, whilst their insurer is paying their hotel.....Sorry medical bill !
10..You will be unaware of using many of the privatized services as they will be allowed to use the NHS logo. Tax payers will be paying the costs of the businesses, whatever those costs may be. Costs which also now include private equity partners, bankers and pension funds.
11..Whilst people will feel they are forced to take on health insurance, these insurance companies will avoid paying out where they can. They will also be able to exercise their exclusive right to discriminate! Offering healthy people unrestricted services whilst keeping their grubby services away from those who may need it most, because they will be unwilling to insure people of higher risk of illness. I find this beyond belief. It makes apartheid look like a minor issue!
12..The financial problems that PFI has caused in the NHS, has created a shortage of cash leading to all kinds of problems which we are now hearing about every day. Shortage of hospital beds, waiting lists, increasing dieing patients, short staff. The government is using these problems contributed by PFI as a reason to justify, "more efficient privatization".
Whilst doing this it blames failings in the NHS system on individuals over burdened by government caused problems. Such as blaming training standards of nurses!
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Here are a few of the businesses that would prove that lords and MPs have a strange attraction to businesses linked to the health industry. It has not always been this way. This addiction has developed mostly over the last few years. There were were cynical people who predicted that something was about to change in the National Health Service a few years back, because politicians and lords were all investing in private health related businesses. I must admit I found it difficult to believe this could happen to the NHS. But it is happening, and it is clear the House of Lords has been preparing for this for a few years.
The majority of the businesses below are businesses which provide medical and pharmaceutical products or services. Some of the others are businesses which are providing contractual services to medical organisations such as the NHS. Some of these businesses providing services which for example charge the NHS for consultancy services will raise questions and doubts as to whether it is really necessary for the NHS to be paying out for such services. It may be raises questions about those who are at the very top of the NHS and whether they can be trusted to spend tax payers money responsibly without being influenced by 'lobbying' by many of the businesses below. The remaining companies listed are businesses which provide finance to buy the medical and pharmaceutical businesses. They will also provide finance to buy the NHS under section 75 over the next months and years. Some of these financially orientated businesses will provide the pension funds which will carry all the risk involved with the debt put onto many of the medical businesses below and also the NHS services. The people buying the services will not use their own money. It will be borrowed. But the banks won't be at risk. Because pension funds will be paying off the mortgages of the business or service regardless of how well the privatized services perform financially. It means any idiot can run one of these services without any financial risk to them selves. Those on the payroll of National Health services is on a dramatic increase. They include the Lords themselves, the executives and staff of private equity and asset management companies. The pension investors who will be carrying most of the financial risk for these executives, the banks and the Lords.
How can all these extra people on the pay roll of the NHS not affect it's ability to actually make ill people better. The size of the industry will reduce because the costs have just gone up significantly. Over all staff will be reduced, thus jobs will without doubt be lost. ......Tax payers are likely to pay more in the future, but then pay again when they find the NHS is not going to be able to provide the care they need. It's difficult to see how this won't happen. The U.S. health services, public and private combined including total health insurance costs the U.S. people individually almost twice the amount per capita compared to the U.K. !
People here are going to suffer and die if we let this happen. It is going to cost thousands of lives.
The evidence is clear for all to see.
To cap it all.......The Condem government has put in place rules which prevent a future government from re-nationalizing health services once privatized. These private companies will apparently have the right to sue the government and make us tax payers pay out again, should we return the services to public ownership......
Strange that isn't it.....It seems they've predicted the public wouldn't want the NHS handed to to profit motivated, debt backed, government corrupted private profiteers.
It's time to get the parasites out of business and government. You should be protesting against this just as many around the world are protesting against dictatorship.!...........
Below are just a few.......Yes there are many more........Of the companies which the Lords who voted in favour of Section 75 (Privatization of the NHS), have interests in !
That is they are directors, executives, or have ownership in the businesses.
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The Businesses.......
Bupa.
Baroness Bottomley is Director of Bupa.
Bupa has recently issued £500 Million in Corporate bonds. One of the worlds most successful health care companies has issued these bonds probably to buy NHS services. This is debt added to our health services which will end up paying on top of the Doctors and nurses we already pay.........It means there will be less doctors and nurses on the front line of the health service.
BUPA Finance PLC.
Lord Edmiston has shares.
GlaxoSmithkline.
Lord Boswell, Baroness Byford, Lord Charrington, Baroness Eccles, Lord Glendon Brook have shares.
Reckit Benckiser.
Lord Boswell, Baroness Byford has shares.
Vectura.
Lord Charrinton, Baroness Byford have shares.
Alere.
Lord Feldman has shares.
The Priory.
Lord Ashcroft has a 34% stake of this company. Bought in 2010 for £44 Million.
Interserve.
Lord Blackwell is Chairman.
BTG. (Owner of Biocompatibles since 2010)
Lord Feldman has shares.
Marsh Inc.
Insurance Broker
Lord Ashton has shares.
Zurich.
Lord Ashton has shares.
Chime Communications Group.
Lord Bell is Chairman.
Reynolds Mackenzie.
Lord Bell is Chairman of holding company- Chime Communications Group.
VCCP Health.
Lord Bell is Chairman of holding company- Chime Communications Group.
Open Minds.
Lord Bell is Chairman of holding company- Chime Communications Group.
Open Plan.
Lord Bell is Chairman of holding company- Chime Communications Group.
Greenhill.
Lord Blyth of Rowington is Senior Adviser to the Investment Bankers who specialise in Healthcare and medical investments.
Odgers Berndtson.
Baroness Bottomley is Chairman.
Teijin.
Lord Brittan is Advisor.
Unilever Ventures / Unilever PLC.
Baroness Byford, Lord Glendon Brook, Lord Charrington have shares.
Croda International.
Baroness Byford has shares.
Huntsworth.
Lord Chadlington is Chief Executive.
AMT-Sybex Group.
Lord Coe is Director.
Cumberlege Eden & Partners.
Baroness Cumberlege runs the company.
Synergy Pharmaceuticals.
Lord Deighton has shares.
Fidelity International. (Owner of Telehealth Solutions Ltd since 2011)
Lord Edmiston has shares.
Investec Asset Management.
Lord Flight is a Director.
Arden Partners. (Investor in Deltex Medical Group which supplies NHS)
Lord Flight is Chairman.
Evercore Bank.
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Chairman of the Advisory Board.
Parity Group PLC.
Lord Freeman is director.
UBS Bank.
Lord Garel Jones is Managing Director.
Baring in mind that the purchases of the NHS contracts will be through the use of debt, this Lord may come in very useful and this is why UBS is included in this list.
Ansell Ltd
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Abbott Laboratories.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Astrazeneca.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Johnson & Johnson.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Novartis.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Novo Nordisk.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Pvizer.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Serco Group.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Siemens AG (Medical).
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
Smith & Nephew.
Lord Glendon Brook has shares.
THIS LIST IS YET TO BE COMPLETED.................
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