Boris Johnson... In 1995 he wrote in the Spectator magazine that free healthcare should be only for "those who are genuinely sick, and for the elderly." He added that "if people have to pay" for NHS services, "they will value them more.
In a 2004 Johnson write a column for The Daily Telegraph in which he lamented how individuals were paying âmore and more in their taxes for this âunimprovableâ universal serviceâ., again arguing for a private insurance system.
Matt Hancock, received ÂŁ28,000 over eight years from Neil Record. Neil Record chairs the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), an opaque lobby group that masquerades as a âcharityâ, refuses to divulge its donors and has a long history of calling for the privitisation of the NHS.
Michael Gove is a co-author (with Jeremy Hunt, Douglas Carswell and Kwasi Kwarteng amongst others) of âDirect Democracyâ, which calls for the privatisation of the NHS, saying it âfails to meet public expectations" and is "no longer relevant in the 21st century".
âWe need to break down the artificial barrier between public and private, which is sometimes compared to apartheid.â
âOur ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain.â
âOur ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain.â
Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Liz Truss Kwasi Kwarteng and Chris Skidmore co-authored a book called 'After the Coalition', which calls for the privatisation of the NHS.
The âbookâ attempts to define Conservative "values" for the time when the party wouldn't be âheld backâ by Lib Dems. They advocate for a health service where two-thirds of hospitals are run privately.
Priti Patel also worked for lobbying firm Weber Shandwick, which does PR for big healthcare and pharmaceutical firms.
Liz Truss is a crazed âfreeâ market libertarian, if you didnât get that from âAfter the Coalitionâ, read âBritannia Unchainedâ, another piece co-authored with Rabb, Patel, Kwarteng and Skidmore.
Truss has already had a series of private meetings with rightwing American thinktanks to discuss deregulation and the benefits of âReaganomicsâ.
Rees-Mogg is a senior Partner of Somerset Capital Management LLP, which has healthcare investor Redwood Emerging Markets Dividend Income Fund as a client.
SCM has so far invested in private hospitals in Brazil, pharmacies in South Africa and a firm behind the technology used in China to check the temperature of people in public places.
Hunt, responsible for more privatisation and outsourcing then anyone in the NHSâ history. By the time he became Health Secretary Hunt had received ÂŁ32,920 from hedge fund baron Andrew Law, a major investor in healthcare firms.
His very first act as Health Secretary was to ensure that a ÂŁ600 million deal with Richard Bransonâs VirginCare went through. House of Commons Health Committee is now chaired by former Health Secretary...Jeremy Hunt.
âJeremy Hunt was Health Secretary in 2017 when the request to give NHS staff more ppe was rejected. NHS staff should have received certain ppe three years ago in the event of an influenza pandemic, but stockpiling it was considered too expensive by the Department of Health.â
Iain Duncan-Smith is the former director of hygiene technology company Byotrol plc, which he has shares in. Byotrol is a UK based hygiene specialist and sells a range of anti-bacterial hand washes and cleaning supplies, its biggest customer is the NHS.
Nadhim Zahawi is a Non-executive director of recruitment company SThree, which specialises in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector and staffs the NHSâ Clinical Commission Groups
Damian Collins spent almost a decade working for marketing agency M&C Saatchi, whose clients include PPP healthcare, AXA insurance, Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck. He still helps them out to this day.
For a comprehensive look at what theyâve done to the NHS...a breakdown of the destructive 2012 Health & Social Care Act, the privatisation, the restructuring, the outsourcing and the policy, see: https://adsinistramuk.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/for-sale-nhs/
Don't anyone tell me the NHS is safe with the tories
THEY WILL SELL IT AS SOON AS THEY CAN
THEY WILL SELL IT AS SOON AS THEY CAN