The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Drugs on the Market

The Minister for Health Service Privatisation has suddenly noticed that New Labour wasted hundreds of millions on the partial privatisation of the Health Service and, apparently with a straight face, has registered some disapproval. Andrew Lansley intends to promote Monitor, the body which now oversees foundation trusts, to economic regulator for all NHS care; doubtless its name will be changed to something more suitable, like Prefect or Head Boy. Lansley has also made the routine rhetorical eructations about level playing fields and value for money which Conservatives generally belch out when urging that rich and poor alike should be opportunified to pay as market forces decree. Still, no doubt he has a point. The dispensation of vast amounts of taxpayers' money in return for bad service or no service at all should, of course, be the exclusive province of the banking sector.

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