For many months local campaigners in Lancaster and Morecambe have been battling to stop the governments plans for the NHS. These plans threaten the NHS through imposing a market that welcomes profit-driven international corporations who answer to shareholders, not patients.
This market will compel hospitals and health professionals, who have traditionally cooperated to deliver healthcare, to compete with each other and with the private sector. Amidst cuts and closures there will be a game of profit and loss and deepening inequality. A market system with winners and losers rather than equal and decent healthcare for all as a human right.
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