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There's been rumours of the NHS being privatised and that the UK adopts a more US based healthcare model - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11
by harryf 6y ago
There's been rumours of the NHS being privatised and that the UK adopts a more US based healthcare model - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/nhs-us-health-care-trade-deal-uk-election https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/nhs-us...
Having access to NHS data could potentially help you do things like;
- build lists of potential customers to target with insurance - combined with their medical histories you can assess who the profitable customers might be - that you could sell nicely to insurance companies
- identify how drugs and treatments are being priced and used - useful market data if you want to launch drugs on the UK market that might be competing
- identify which parts of the NHS are valuable / profitable as part of selective privatisation - what's worth buying in other words. Leave the unprofitable parts un-privatised...
I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made selling that kind of data.
- cturner 6y agoThere's been rumours The notion that anyone is steering the UK towards the quirky US model is simple fear-mongering. Even the partisan article you cite only talks about privatisation of elements of the NHS. A mixed public/private health care model can be effective policy. The Australian system serves as an example of this. The NHS is an inefficient mess, despite the efforts of so many of its staff. It is reasonable that we should be able to debate policy models. The tone of the Guardian article does not assist reasonable debate.
- DanBC 6y agoWe already have a mixed private / public model. Billions of the NHS budget is spent on NHS patients in private providers. > The NHS is an inefficient mess Mostly caused by the incoherent Lansley reforms and years of austerity from Hunt.
- stefantalpalaru 6y ago> There's been rumours of the NHS being privatised https://www.nhsforsale.info/overview/what-nhs-care-has-been-outsourced/ https://www.nhsforsale.info/overview/what-nhs-care-has-been-...