Tories, the Free Market and the NHS.
I have come on this forum before and praised the Free Market ( or Capitalist/ Corporate interests 0 for delivering a much cheaper and more efficient phone service than the State could provide.
However, when the Corporations/Free Market/ Private Money moves into health care, there are problems.
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/mediacentre/releases/10-09-2011-conference-adrian-ramsay.html
As Adrian Ramsey points out in the section marked 'NHS', Previous governments have attempted to bring not just private money, but corporate logic into the NHS.
The net result is that Doctors are now being forced to compete, and not co operate in saving lives and improving health outcomes.
Whereas before, a new improvement was to be shared among dedicated professionals, new techniques are now regarded as 'trade secrets' to be guarded in order to out perform other health trusts.
So, my take is that competition is good in the phone industry( an analysis backed by the BBC on the links I provided in that discussion). However, competition and opening up the NHS to private enterprise and the competition culture is not good for the NHS.
However, when the Corporations/Free Market/ Private Money moves into health care, there are problems.
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/mediacentre/releases/10-09-2011-conference-adrian-ramsay.html
As Adrian Ramsey points out in the section marked 'NHS', Previous governments have attempted to bring not just private money, but corporate logic into the NHS.
The net result is that Doctors are now being forced to compete, and not co operate in saving lives and improving health outcomes.
Whereas before, a new improvement was to be shared among dedicated professionals, new techniques are now regarded as 'trade secrets' to be guarded in order to out perform other health trusts.
So, my take is that competition is good in the phone industry( an analysis backed by the BBC on the links I provided in that discussion). However, competition and opening up the NHS to private enterprise and the competition culture is not good for the NHS.