Potential Government Policies.

[Doggit]

Yes, but I asked you when you get charged for using the NHS, as in the way you would if it were privatised; which is what you are arguing against if you want the NHS renationalised

 

[JohnD]

Yes, but I asked you when you get charged for using the NHS

I told you, I pay into the National Insurance fund, which pays the health providers, and keeps the British Virgin Islands in business. So do you, unless you are a tax-dodger.

When you see a hospital with an NHS sign outside, who owns it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/8424618/PFI-contracts-ripping-off-hospitals.html

 

[Doggit]

The govenment owns it, but under the PFI agreements introduced by John Major, and the used profusely by Gordon Brown, the PFI companies built the hospitals, and rents them to the local health authroties on a 25 year payment lease, at which point the buildings themselves are then the ultimate property of the health authority in their entirety.

The NHS occupy and use the buildings, but are paying a much higher rent than if they'd built the hospital themselves. Brown did it to fiddle the books, and keep the cost of them "off" of the balance sheet, so government borrowing didn't have to rise to pay for them.

You wouldn't be renationalsing the NHS, just certain buildings.

 

[Judy in the sky]

Sorry, but when I saw the title of the thread (and it's author) I spotted the word "Potential", then realised Johnnyboy's been staring into his "wishful thinking crystal ball " again.

 

[JohnD]

I see Judy is unwilling to comment on the policies.