ConDem health reforms - The end of the NHS in England
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- Created: Wednesday, 03 October 2012 10:07
- Written by Hannah Caller and Robert Clough
ConDem government policy for the NHS has become absolutely clear with the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary: it is to reduce state-run health care services to a basic minimum. Hardest hit will be the working class, the elderly, disabled people, the chronically ill and those suffering from diabetes or cancer. Quality and level of care will come at a cost to be met through a widening system of top-up payments – a two-tier system. Meanwhile state-run hospitals and primary care or GP services will be step by step taken over by private monopolies and run for profit. The end of the NHS as a universal system funded by taxation will be a savage blow for the working class. Hannah Caller and Robert Clough report.