David, Lord
Owen, a Labour leader that never was after he went Social Democrat long ago,
has issued a warning about the EU and the effects that TTIP and other policies
may have on our National Health Service.
That is it will no longer be National, be concerned primarily with
health or a "service" in the terms we understand it.
A full but readable article is here on the Open Democracy web site to
see what he is saying. It does not make
for happy reading for all those of us with the aches and pains and other
problems of age and infirmity. It is bad
enough at present. Local hospitals are
no longer local. National has become
international and bad luck the locals.
More to the
point funding is no longer funding, it is churning the financial markets to
secure returns on investment for corporations endowed with unhealthy titles as
Private Equity, Limited Liability Partnerships, Trust Funds you cannot trust
and the whole array of financial manipulation in a difficult to understand
world.
This is going
to become the rule if the EU has its way.
If you want to know how good or bad it gets just look at our rail
services and try to find or buy the cheapest ticket.
If we are
getting rough rides on the railways it could be a whole lot worse riding the
hospital trolleys of the future.
If TTIP is going to transform the NHS ito something more like the French healthcare service you will be very grateful.
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