Only the Nasty Party could see the NHS as Britain's Biggest Enterprise.

The Tories have under-funded the NHS budget, split up the NHS workforce, brought in management consultants (a group of another 107 it says in the news today), and drafted the Naylor review to sell off NHS assets to make up for their under-funding.

The Tory government have REFUSED to tell the public what their sordid plans for transforming healthcare in England were when they first came out - then voted down a Labour motion to reveal the secret transformation plans (like they did with the risk register for the 2012 H&SC act).

The Health & Social Care Act [H&SC] opened up access to every NHS service contract to any private [qualified] provider. Not content with auctioning off NHS service contracts, at the same time, they handed over the NHS budget to the private primary sector to commission out as these private entities as they see fit. They called these GP led groups 'buyer-seller groups' or 'commissioning groups'.

Then to top it all off, they use the Health & Social care 'Act' to absolve the Health secretary's duty to provide health care to our nation then give 'foundation trust hospitals' the rights to undertake up to half their work in a private capacity.

But not to be the eternal pessimist, the health secretary 'congratulated' NHS staff on accepting a pay rise that was actually a real-term pay drop.

They are only after one thing. The NHS market along with all its assets.

Contrary to what the Tories might say, they want to see the end of ALL public services, particularly the NHS as its something that contradicts their market principles of how commodities are bought and sold.

The 2014 Commonwealth Fund report on 11 wealthy countries shows that the UK NHS spends least but ranks first in healthcare performance; the U.S. spends most but ranks bottom.

In the US, one in six citizens have no health cover and inability to pay healthcare bills is the primary cause for personal bankruptcies. Despite this, we are witnessing extraordinary, deliberate moves towards a failed US-style healthcare model called Integrated Accountable Care.

Here's the table below

The NHS has gradually been steered away from its founding principles and the public simply may not be fully aware of just how much.

The NHS is not unaffordable. Increasingly Marketised and commercialised, costs have escalated, resulting in inefficiencies and a widening of health inequalities.

Only the Nasty Party could see the NHS as Britain's Biggest Enterprise.

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