Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Healthcare workers, patients’ groups and the country’s biggest union are urging the Prime Minister to exclude the NHS from a “monster” new EU-US free trade deal they claim could make it impossible for botched privatisations ever to be renationalised.
Campaigners claim the agreement would mean the NHS could be sued by US healthcare multinationals if the Government attempted to return services back to the state. US healthcare companies could argue that such renationalisations interfered with their “potential profits” in breach of the trade agreement and get them overturned in what campaigners term “secret courts”.
The NHS is particularly vulnerable, campaigners claim, because of the way the Health and Social Care Act 2012 has significantly increased the size and scale of clinical services now being run by private multinationals.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-or-it-could-be-sued-union-warns-9580243.html
Campaigners claim the agreement would mean the NHS could be sued by US healthcare multinationals if the Government attempted to return services back to the state. US healthcare companies could argue that such renationalisations interfered with their “potential profits” in breach of the trade agreement and get them overturned in what campaigners term “secret courts”.
The NHS is particularly vulnerable, campaigners claim, because of the way the Health and Social Care Act 2012 has significantly increased the size and scale of clinical services now being run by private multinationals.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-or-it-could-be-sued-union-warns-9580243.html