[yummybrainz]

Perhaps I'm being paranoid and should assume ignorance rather them malice, but I can't help but wonder if there was significant lobbying from companies providing healthcare software to make these repos closed-source.

I know nothing about the NHS, so I have no idea if this is plausible.

[keepupnow]

Not paranoia, that is entirely the case here.

[FerretFred]

That almost how you spell "palantir"...

[partomniscient]

The last things the capitalist powers that be want, is any sort of socialism. Profit > people, rather than People > profit.

Just a reminder - socialism does not necessarily imply communism, and and implementation of communism thus far has been extremely corrupt.

I lived the in the UK for a couple of years in the early 2000's, the NHS was awesome. It's now a shallow shell of its former self.

Australia where I'm from is trying to imitate the privitisation of health, but my state-local for-profit hospital just went tits up and has been acquired by the government. Partially because a baby needlessly died because profit > caring about human lives, but it wasn't accountable and used tax havens etc. etc.

Fuckin' mess.

I feel for the the UK, because at their best, they probably had the best socialised healthcare system in the world (partly because their population size afforeded them access to medical equipment that other similar countries in Scandinavia etc. can't quite afford).

The US profit motive trumps well-being and healthcare tied to your employment just screws with our heads for most reasonable people. The people that need the help the most are denied it, whilst for the rich - it's built in.