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by baylisscg 2201 days ago
The removal of EU legislation from British law and the UK-US trade deal. With the US demanding it's healthcare and pharma unfettered access to the NHS on terms equivalent to current US not UK standards. The UK is not, technically, slapping a FOR SALE sign on the NHS they've just put themselves in a position where pretty much anyone and everyone can demand a slice. Of course this assumes that the current gonverment doesn't view the NHS as an asset to be strip mined which I'm damn sure they do.
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> With the US demanding it's healthcare and pharma unfettered access to the NHS on terms equivalent to current US not UK standards.

They already have that. Read the Lansley reforms. They mostly don't take it up because they can't afford to run healthcare for the pittance paid by UK government, but there are large bits of the NHS run by non-NHS providers. See for example Priory Group or Cygnet Health Care.

> which I'm damn sure they do.

They specifically do not. You consuming twitter bubble fake news doesn't make something true