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Old 16-04-2011, 09:14   #43
Chrysalis
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Re: The end of the NHS - Privatisation

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Originally Posted by the_neurotic_cat View Post
I just can't see how healthcare could ever be profitable. There's a bottomless pit of demand for healthcare services, which is why we have waiting lists. If there's 'profit' being made then that, by definition means that someone somewhere went without treatment or insufficient treatment.

Profit and Healthcare are just incompatible. I'd rather have spending accountable to the ballot box than some distant anonymous bank manager.
it can be profitable quite easy. examples.

1 - pay a company you own for supplies or services and deliberatly overpay.
2 - reduce quality of service, eg. 12 hour waiting in a&e by cutting staff, stop prescribing drugs to people who get free prescriptions, drop refferal rates, sell of equipment, rent out parts of hospitals for premium use.
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