NHS, Brexit, Paying for medication

[ShiveringCoyote]

I used to live in the UK and had cause to use the wonderful NHS a few times. Fantastic and free to the user. A health care system to envy.
Since Brexit theres been ramped up murmurings about scrapping the NHS and going with a US type model of healthcare. Let's face it the NHS is leaking money left right and centre.
People who are on continuous medication will end up having to pay for it. The big pharmaceutical companies stand to make huge profits.

adjusts tin foil hat

I have a feeling that the first party to farm out to the private sector was labour too, and I'm (was) Labour.

The private sector has been involved since the beginning of the nhs - the first line of treatment for everyone within the nhs was the private sector; GPs, pharmacies, dentists, opticians were all private (more and more are nhs now).

The nhs itself was created from private business and that is the cause of many of the inefficiencies in the system; compromises that were necessary to bring those private companies and charities on board eg. things like consultant’s contracts which were negotiated to let them retain some control and continue to do private work alongside.

In the USA

• no maternity pay
• contraception is not free and is often not covered by health insurance
• millions of women have no health insurance or access to antenatal care
• abortion rights are severely restricted

The November election is between a President whose VP is a member of the evangelical right and agrees with further restricting the list above

and a candidate whose VP is a woman

the UK government wants a trade deal with the US
the US wants access to the UK health market in exchange

a German system would be fine
but Brexit