The NHS is too much of a national treasure for its future to be decided by politicians – still less those who, in spite of their rhetoric, are hell bent on privatising sorry ‘outsourcing’ its services to ‘any willing and able provider’.
Handing public funded facilities over to the private sector, to be run for profit by foreign owned, multi-national organisations, is a first step down the slippery road to US style, private healthcare.
As with water, gas, electicity, public transport and the railways – the big prizes of the last Conservative administration – when it’s gone it’s gone.
If ever there was a case for a national referendum, the future of the NHS has got to be such.
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