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Friday, October 12, 2012

Al Jazeera: 'Anger At Privatization of British Healthcare'


Source:Al Jazeera- with a look at Britain's health care system.

"If you were describing a country in which state assets are sold off to private investors who have close economic ties with the government then many people would think you'd be talking about a country in the post-Soviet era.
That's the charge health campaigners are levelling against private investors in Britain who are increasingly running hospitals.
Al Jazeera's London correspondent Laurence Lee has the latest in our "Selling off Britain" series." 


"Al Jazeera (Arabic: الجزيرة Al-Jazīrah [æl (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ], lit. 'The Peninsula') is a Qatari state-owned[a] Arabic-language international news television network. It is based in Doha and operated by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

The patent holding is a "private foundation for public benefit" under Qatari law.[3] Under this organizational structure, the parent receives funding from the Qatari government while maintaining nominal editorial independence.[4][5] At the onset of the Qatar diplomatic crisis in 2017, several national governments of the Arab League called for the closure of the entire Al Jazeera conglomerate as part of a list of thirteen demands that were presented to the Qatari government in exchange for re-normalized relations.[6] Al Jazeera has been accused of pushing "Qatari propaganda" by many countries and organizations, including those in the Arab world." 

From Wikipedia

See, leftists, even Socialist Britain has private healthcare. Get use to it, not every developed nation in the world have state-run health care system. Universal health care, simply means universal access to healthcare. Doesn't explain how thats accomplished.