Comments on: Public private partnership and the NHS https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 24 Mar 2015 06:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/#comment-3035939 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 06:38:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61363#comment-3035939 http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/21/ow-lucrative–deals-go-to-firms-that-use-tax-havens

The UK’s obsession with privatisation (partial or complete) has led to mediocrity in everything from trains (amongst the worst in Europe), health, postal services, education (companies has invented testing, exams which pupils can’t fail…) and so forth. It’s a type of perverse socialism where corporations thrive thanks to handouts from the tax-payer.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/#comment-3035921 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:26:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61363#comment-3035921 Dalli was Muscat’s health tsar. We were never told what his conclusions were.

Everthing went quiet and now there’s a flurry of announcements about big projects in the health care sector.

What’s Dalli getting out of those? I don’t imagine for a moment that he wrote a report, handed it over to
government and then let the business deals roll in without him.

Muscat should make clear that Dalli has no part in any of the deals and is not making any money out of them directly or indirectly.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/#comment-3035899 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:35:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61363#comment-3035899 This one takes the biscuit. Literally.

http://maltarightnow.com/news/2015/03/23/gurdien-mejjet-fuq-karozza-tal-linja/

]]> By: Ta wigi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/#comment-3035896 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:28:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61363#comment-3035896 Jekk ha jidhlu l-Amerikani fin-nofs, ninsewha li s-servizzi ser jibqghu b’ xejn.

]]> By: R Camilleri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/#comment-3035892 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:01:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61363#comment-3035892 The irony is that while this government is proposing these public private partnerships, the public sector is growing larger rather than shrinking.

So eventually we will have to finance these public private partnerships and also an over-inflated public sector thanks to ‘taghna lkoll’.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/public-private-partnership-and-the-nhs/#comment-3035883 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:06:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61363#comment-3035883 The healthcare provided remains free at the point of delivery. It is a myth that any sort of public healthcare is free at all. Ultimately, someone pays and, as we have seen with our former minister of identity cards, police, army and all things S&M, it often isn’t the direct beneficiary of those services.

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