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The NHS could be "carved open" for profiteering US private healthcare companies by the end of this year Labour has warned, as concerns grow over the implications of a landmark trade treaty between the US and the EU that critics say would give US healthcare giants, "irreversible" powers to bid for any NHS contract.
Negotiations between the EU and the US over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which aims to remove barriers to trade, are at an advanced stage.
Andy Burnham, the Shadow Health Secretary, said the NHS must be exempted from the deal to protect it from market forces and international competition law which he said threatened the "fabric" of a publicly run, free-at-the-point-of-use NHS.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ow-health-secretary-andy-burnham-9292530.html
Negotiations between the EU and the US over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which aims to remove barriers to trade, are at an advanced stage.
Andy Burnham, the Shadow Health Secretary, said the NHS must be exempted from the deal to protect it from market forces and international competition law which he said threatened the "fabric" of a publicly run, free-at-the-point-of-use NHS.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ow-health-secretary-andy-burnham-9292530.html