Posted on 01/30/2018 11:41:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
A group of campaigners, including Prof Stephen Hawking, has been given permission to challenge a government health policy in the High Court.
They will pursue a judicial review against Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and NHS England over plans to create accountable care organisations (ACOs).
These are to act as partnership bodies incorporating hospitals, community services and councils.
Campaigners say it risks privatisation, but this is denied by ministers.
'Radical changes' NHS England wants hospitals and other trusts to work closely with GPs and social care services to look after more patients in their communities rather than in hospital.
In some areas, these groups are developing into ACOs, which will hold contracts to provide services.
Critics argue that this could pave the way for privatisation of parts of the NHS and that Parliament has not legislated to allow the process to happen.
The group bringing the case to court says an act of Parliament would be needed for the changes.
Former Halifax and Huddersfield consultant eye surgeon Dr Colin Hutchinson, who chairs Doctors for the NHS, said: "These radical changes will eventually affect everybody in England.
"There needs to be a sound legal basis before 10-year contracts worth billions of pounds are outsourced to these new organisations."
'Irresponsible scaremongering' Legal costs will not be capped if the case is lost, and the claimants are said to be considering their next steps.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the claims would be resisted and it was irresponsible scaremongering to say accountable care organisations were supporting privatisation.
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I was thinking this was ridiculous, then I realized it’s not the US. Anything’s possible. :)
I was in the UK years ago when their gubmit minions were trying to outlaw private health insurance because it took funds that might go to the national health plan (and provide better health care for the rich, of course).
I had a nasty little conversation with lib friends (the lib wife was graduating from med school) warning them that a single payer gubmit supported program would not allow them to have their small private practice as they dreamed. They kept insisting that Dorkbama-kare wouldn’t do that.
Thankfully, the Trumpster may have somewhat derailed Dorkbama-kare, but we can easily see that the “people’s health company” in Britainistan will not be so easily outmaneuvered.
Because everyone knows that being crumpled up in a wheelchair and dabbling in mathematical singularities found in ultradense matter physics is equivalent to having a business degree specializing in healthcare management.
“I had a nasty little conversation with lib friends (the lib wife was graduating from med school) warning them that a single payer gubmit supported program would not allow them to have their small private practice as they dreamed.”
They are clueless if this is what they thought.
Exactly. A rolling shopping cart who purports to be a genius in concepts of space but believes in glowbull warming.
His fears are not unfounded.
However...
A person with the same condition would have died long ago had under the oh-so-tender-mercies of the budget conscious NHS.
As in Orwell's Animal Farm, some animals are MORE equal than others.
The Star Trek episode were this Clown put himself in the company of Einstein and Newton was sickening.
Lol! Well put...
Stephen Hawking: HAHAHA. YOUBITCHESARETOTALLYGOINGTOLOSE. IAMAGENIUSINAWHEELCHAIR. NOONEISGOIGNTOTELLMENO. YOUAREGOINGDOWN. HAHAHAHA.
A Jesuit priest gave Hawkings the idea of Black holes but was unable to work out the math. In Typical Hawking’s fashion, he took 100% of the credit.
psalm 14
Obamacare is still the law. It hasn't been repealed.
Theoretical physicists and their math equations on white boards that supposedly prove the latest universal/cosmic theories that seem to change with the latest theory. How'd that "string theory" work out or ever proven any "dark matter" as yet?
These guys are geniuses, but they still haven't figure out what is gravity, the fundamental force in our known universe. Of course, a new theory is there are parallel universes within the same material space. That could explain the unknown effect of gravitation pull on our universe that brings the gases together. Pfft.
Just give them a white board and they'll massage the numbers to come up with every little theory their imaginations can devise. What ever happened to multi-billion dollar CERN Hadron Collider experiments? They found another sub-atomic particle that has no bearing on the above dead theories. However, it didn't prove much more than an atomic microscope has shown since it's invention. So there's another sub-atomic particle. So what? Please explain gravity to me in layman's terms.
They will never know what's behind the Big Bang, if it occurred as they say. It's all beyond human comprehension, and that's why I'm agnostic.
So Hawking is now an expert in health care? Okay.
True? Have citations? Why would a priest come up with the idea of collapsed star with it's immense gravitational pull, not even allowing light (photons) to escape? I just read that some physicists are starting to question the origin and even existence of "black holes". If they are what we've been told, we will never be able to cross the Event Horizon to look or measure the inside.
Use Google, now type in “A Jesuit priest gave Hawkings the idea of Black holes”.... Its easy
I think he must be talking about Georges Lemaître, who was a Jesuit Priest and also widely seen as being the Father of the Big Bang theory. But I am not sure of his relation to black holes.
Hawking actually produced a special that gave Lemaître reasonable credit for his role in this stuff...but this was back in a time where Hawking was a little more reasonable.
“Why would a priest come up with the idea of collapsed star with it’s immense gravitational pull, not even allowing light (photons) to escape?”
Why was Einstein’s best friend a Jesuit Priest cosmologist?
Hawking has repeatedly made it known that he's relied on the NHS for treatment throughout his life..
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