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Old 26-01-2007, 12:08   #23
jambutty
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Angry Re: NHS outpatients

Private companies are in business to MAKE MONEY Neil and private companies involved in providing some NHS functions take money out of the system that could be used to improve the service.

It was recently quoted that the PFI (Private Finance Initiative) companies will make £45 BILLION during the next 30 years and this money is our taxes and National Health Insurance contributions that has been allocated to the NHS to supply a health service to the public. That yearly £1.5 BILLION drain (I would be inclined to call it a theft) would do wonders for improving the NHS.

To recap PFI – private finance pays for the building of a new hospital and leases it back to the area health authority and also supplies the work force to clean and maintain it and I understand to provide patients and staff meals. All at an immense profit for the PFI company. I also understand that the PFI path is going to be taken with regard to schools.

I don’t know where the idea came from but this excuse for a government has gone along with it because it removes the need for the government to spend money on new hospitals. So the government has been able to finance illegal wars, build plush new offices for various government departments and seriously consider spending BILLIONS on replacing a weapon system (Trident) that we will not have absolute control of. And people think that Gordon Brown is the best Chancellor ever. He is nothing more than a con artist highly skilled in the art of ‘creative accounting’.

To digress a little – 6 nukes will flatten the UK and make it uninhabitable for thousands of years. One on Exeter, London, Birmingham, between Manchester and Liverpool, Newcastle and between Glasgow and Edinburgh. If that were to happen and it is a HUGE IF, do your think that the yanks would allow us to retaliate? Not a chance because it could trigger a nuclear world war and the USA would get drawn in, as would other major world powers. MAD only works when there are two super powers. MAD does not work for minor powers like us and North Korea.

If the private sector wants to build and staff, the training of which has been funded by the private sector, its own hospitals to treat private patients then that’s OK by me.
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