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Revealed: these secret documents expose how our NHS could be completely sold-off
After last week’s commendable junior doctors strike and the utterly lackadaisical approach from the government you’d be forgiven for thinking the future of the NHS couldn’t look anymore precarious.
You may well be wrong.
On Monday, Greenpeace’s Dutch branch released a data leak of confidential documents relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is currently being negotiated in private between the US and the EU.
248 pages covered 13 out of 17 chapters of the proposals. From agriculture to wine via fisheries and financial services very little was left to the imagination. The data exposed the underlying thrust of TTIP – to reduce government’s control over international trade and allow corporations a fundamentally free ride in terms of how they go about their business.
While representatives from the EU hurriedly dismissed Greenpeace’s accusations as a “storm in a teacup” (a teacup made in America, perchance?) the environmental campaign group were insistent: “The negotiations must stop because the current negotiators are not acting in the public interest”.
But just how do the newly-released documents affect the NHS? And can we really believe David Cameron when regarding concerns he says “some people argue in some way this could damage the NHS. I think that is nonsense”?
Numerous aspects of the leaks relate to the NHS
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Source: http://www.philosophers-stone.co.uk/?p=10946
