Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "General Election 2019: Row over Labour's 'NHS for sale' claim - BBC News" video.

The Tories don't even need to do it in trade talks. They can have a secret deal on the side. They are hardly going to state their aims openly in government records. People don't always understand what privatisation consists of. They assume a wholesale sell off of the NHS. What is happening already is a gradual sell off of health services. 26% of the health budget already goes to private firms. A lot of this is concealed by the fact that the money is first passed through the middlemen of voluntary organisations and local authorities who pass it straight on to private companies. Because the former are involved the government counts it as funding public services. More of this is likely to happen if we hard Brexit and want a deal with the USA. Also US drug firms will want to charge the NHS more for drugs. The document is coded and exploratory. A key thing is it's not putting cards on the table and saying no to more sell off of health services and no to increasing the access of American health companies and drug companies.
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The Tories don't even need to do it in trade talks. They can have a secret deal on the side. They are hardly going to state their aims openly in government records. People don't always understand what privatisation consists of. They assume a wholesale sell off of the NHS. What is happening already is a gradual sell off of health services. 26% of the health budget already goes to private firms. A lot of this is concealed by the fact that the money is first passed through the middlemen of voluntary organisations and local authorities who pass it straight on to private companies. Because the former are involved the government counts it as funding public services. More of this is likely to happen if we hard Brexit and want a deal with the USA. Also US drug firms will want to charge the NHS more for drugs. The document is coded and exploratory. A key thing is it's not putting cards on the table and saying no to more sell off of health services and no to increasing the access of American health companies and drug companies.
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