Hello Everyone
Have been promising to do this topic for some time now and following up on VM latest topic which obviously links to this; it would seem the hour indeed as come.
The NHS is clearly now in danger of becoming to some extent privatised, although I am still not sure if any government would finish the NHS altogether/ Thats too high risk for them to take. But I have no doubt that there are many among the political parties who fully suppoort this step.
I am not going to single out any single party as to blame for this, because all are responsible, nor is it a recent trend. Because it really all started with Thatcher in the early 80s when she invited an american health consultation firm to help re-organise the NHS.
All of which lead to the Community Care Act of 1990 with all that it meant for us for CHC.
No single party is to blame because successive labour governments as well as the now coalition government, working ever closer with the private sectors had already constructed almost the entire ediface of a healthcare market. The latest Tory care bill just speeds up the final stage and makes it more clearly visible.
The idea that new labour planned to replace the NHS with a USA-style market, complete with HMO, will surprise very few people on this forum, least of all to Finn Mickey, who gave me the neccessary boot up the bottom, to actually do some research and see if some of his remarks about the NHS and the American angle were correct.
I would also like to thank Ian S Crane and Tony Gosling for their ever inspirational writings about the New World
Order and the power of the cooperate state. I would also like to thank Colin Leys, honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College, London, who along with Stewart Player wrote the book The Plot Against The NHS.
The fact is that HMOs have been the inspiration behind practically every element of the "system reforms" pursued by New Labour since 2000. One HMO in particular, California based, Kaiser Permanette, the largest HMO in the USA, has been intimately involved in shaping the Department Of Healths strategic thinking.
New labour "reforms" have been worked out in constant discussions with and visits to Kaiser.
This includes the conversion of NHS trusts into independent businesses ( foundation trusts ), the introduction of ISTCs,payment by results, giving NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraging NHS patients to choose them, changes in NHS staff contracts, and last but certainly not least the development of HMO-style commissioning.
Over a period of several years these changes have been introduced in a piecemeal manner in order to conceal their overall intent and purpose. But when looked at with reference to the Kaiser model the various elements assume their true siginificance.
Pushing through these changes is a tight-knit "policy community" comprising a number of leading private sector figures, some doctors and some health policy think-tanks, working with a group of strategists within the Department of Health.
Among the latter, a highly influential figure has been professor Chris Ham, who was for some years head of the Department of Healths strategy unit, and who is now director of the Kings Fund. Ham has been a long term champion of Kaiser, organising a series of visits to the companys california headquarters and being instrumental in setting up a number of " Kaiser beacon" projects within the NHS to introduce and "normalise" Kaisers aims and methods among the management of the NHS.
Even more emblematic is Dr.Penny Dash, usually just called Penny Dash, who after briefly working for Kaisers in the 90s, was appointed head of strategy at the and co-authored the NHS plan of 2000, which initiated the marketisational process. Since then she has served on the board of Monitor, led Lord Darzi recent review of health services in London, and is currently vice-chair of the Kings Fund.
Dash was trained as a doctor in England and then went on to do a business degree in America at Stanford ( one of the hotbeds of the corporate state in the USA and a seat of masonic power, and Tavistock ruled. )
It was Labour minister Milburn who brought Dash to the NHS. Another figure often linked with Dash and equally powerful and influential is Pam GARSIDE,who is yet another Health-Care consultant and a senior research fellow at The Nuffield Trust, which works very closely with THe Kings Fund. A close inspection of NHS policy development over the last ten years of New Labours Government shows that always either Dash or Garside were involved and often together.
But it is Dashs function as placewoman for the global consultancy giantg Mc Kinsey, that is most siginificant.
McKinsey has been described as being "the gold standard" for the provision of corporate strategy.
Adviser to the Fortune 500 companies and as "global thought leaders" in the areas of strategy and operations management, the company has played a central role in " system-reform" in the New Labour and Dash is now a partner in their London Office.
One of Dashs initiatives, The Cambridge Health Network is just essentially a Mckinsey front for exchanges between private healthcare corporations, financial institutions and the Department of Health.
Sponsors of this network include some very big players ( all involved in The Corporate State Totality and part of the world-wide cancer that is Bildenburg and powered by developmental methods of group control via British and American versions of the Tavistock Institute of Human Resources. Respect to Ian S Crane and Tony Gosling for telling the truth.) These companies include, Halliburton, General Electric and Perot Systems, as well as our very own Glaxo-Smith-Klkine, BUPA, Assura ( now owned by Virgin ), Mott McDonald and Carillion.
McKinsey have been in many ways the key architect of the reforms that have prepared the way fro the new health bill by the coalition. So it is therefore hardly, coincidental that it is McKinsey who came up with the figure of 20 billion figure that is now starting to be cut from the NHSs budget.
Neither Lansley nor his Health Bill came fromm nowhere. Lansley is a far right-wing Tory who served under Thatcher and who fully supported her hard-right extreme views on The NHS. He was principal secretary to Norman Tebbit, which just about says it all.. It has to be always born in mind here that when NEW LABOUR gained power under Blair that most of Thatchers hard right policies now became Blairs. he never denied he didnt admire her and he craved to be like her. So when Thatcher went her policy on the privatisation of the NHS didnt Blair just took it on. There was and of course still is a cross-all party agreement on just which way the reform of healthcare will go. Respect here to Colin Leys and Stewart Player for also telling the truth.
There was a group of people represented in The Independent Healthcare Association ( IHA) back in the mid to late 90s who really thought that the NHS should be abolished and that there should be a return to pre 1948 health market.
With the decision of the Blair government to move towards a private market pattern and the meetings with the IHA which represented that current of thought the whole process got under way.
Eamon Butler ( who is a director of The Adam Smith Institute ( no doubt another of the Tavistock spiders webs ), said that " it had been in the planning for 20 years ".
To finish just to close on just what some of these American connections are like.Look at these examples.
"" In the case of UNUM and the future of health, and welfare in the united kingdom. An " outlaw" branded, very troubled American based insurer recently rebranded a " benefits" and "rehabilitation" specialist organisation has been acting as "reform" advisers to the New Labour government.
These so called reform initiatives and innovations invented by UNUM costing millions of taxpayers pounds, appears to have the full blessings of all major political parties and including the Tories and the Lib Dems.
This organisation is awaiting numerous RICO Act trials in the States. For some reason New Labour appeared to have placed their full trust in one of the worst companies in the USA. This has to be a very disturbing and fundamental shift down the wrong road. ""
Another lovely example of what you can all expect if this bill gets passed concerns UNITED-HEALTHCARE.UK which is the British subsidiary of US health Insurance giant / UNITED HEALTHCARE. It was reported in the Mirror the numerous offences committed by this particular company over the last decade, including over-charging patients, fixing charges, defrauding the US Public Healthcare System for medication and cheating patients out of money.
For this, this company was fined tens of millions of dollars.
Do you really want this here? I dont. Lets all be the zombies that they say those who oppose this bill are.
Your comments please and sorry it was so long. It could have been far longer I am just touching the surface.
Very Kind regards Ian
