These miserable bastards in the scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' want to destroy the NHS entirely and allow private industry to control all our health care !!! Leaked copy of UK-India trade deal sends shockwaves through NHS: ‘Withdraw this death warrant immediately’ Michiel Willems - 2h ago React60 Comments| It has emerged that a leaked chapter of the free trade agreement (FTA) between UK and India contains provisions that will, amongst other things, allow pharmaceutical companies to extend their monopolies and keep prices artificially high for years beyond the end of an original 20 year patent term. Drugs manufactured by India save the NHS considerable cost; a year’s course of imatinib treatment, a cancer drug used to treat leukaemia, was previously priced at £27,200 per year under monopoly. The patent for imatinib was rejected in India under provisions of their IP law that would be at risk of being removed by the UK demands detailed in the leaked text. The NHS now pays just £556.32 for a course of Indian-produced generic imatinib, almost a 98 per cent price reduction.© Provided by City AM Another provision in the document, which was seen by City A.M., would see the end of so-called “pre-grant” patent oppositions, a mechanism which is currently used to block patents before they are formally granted. Without this safeguard more products will be subject to patent monopolies, preventing the manufacture of generic versions, experts have explained to this paper. Emergency letter to Badenoch In a letter to Kemi Badenoch, the International Trade Secretary, multiple health and development groups warn that the cost of NHS medicines, 25 per cent of which are supplied by India, could be affected if the UK forces India to change national laws related to intellectual property as a result of trade negotiations. Signatories to the letter from nine civil society organisations, including Oxfam GB and Médecins Sans Frontières UK, call for the UK to “immediately withdraw” the proposed intellectual property chapter. In fact, they wrote that the proposed provisions would do “devastating damage to India’s ability to produce affordable life saving drugs, which in turn would also threaten the financial sustainability of the NHS and put patients’ lives at risk by delaying the availability of lower priced genetic alternatives to essential medicines, potentially for years.”
How on earth can it be concluded that a condition in a Trade Agreement which may indirectly allow private companies to have a little more control than they already have be construed as wanting to " destroy " the NHS entirely and allow private companies to control "all our healthcare" ?
Oh, do I have to spell it out in words on one syllable for those incapable of reading and understanding the article I attached to my thread ???
no but you could start by spelling those right.......not thbose.I read and understood it clearly...your comment is highly exaggerated and over dramatic.
Keying eror, not spelling mistake corrected !!! If, as you state my comments are 'highly exaggerated' then perhaps you would care to explain this: "..... multiple health and development groups warn that the cost of NHS medicines, 25 per cent of which are supplied by India, could be affected if the UK forces India to change national laws related to intellectual property as a result of trade negotiations."
Keying error....not eror. The cost of NHS medicines COULD be affected.Thats not going to destroy our NHS entirely either.I say again your comments are exaggerated and worthless.
If my comments are 'exaggerated and worthless' then why are "multiple health and development groups ...." writing to Government Ministers with legitimate concerns hmmm ???
One thing that few people realise is that 3 or 4 decades ago, rich Indian families were sending their children to the UK to qualify as doctors. Needles to say, many of these students returned to India to work in medicine and surgery. A few of the families, supported by the Indian government, went on to found the medical colleges that are word leading today. The only thing lacking is the students bar, so the students are studying their second discipline in the evenings, something that is lacking in the UK. At the outbreak of covid, with less than one in a thousand UK doctors having a qualification in virology and GP's having only a basic training, doctors were prescribing antibiotics at the viral stage, rather than saving them for the bacterial stage that kills the patient. This was such a problem that NHS England were screening the "Antibiotics are wonderful pill's, but not the cure for all of your ill's" advert on prime time television. Since antibiotics are prescription only, what this was in effect saying was. Go to your doctor, get some pills, bring them home, then flush them down the toilet. Back to the subject of your post. The Indian medical colleges are now producing some of the best doctors in the UK, allowing our colleges to steadily decline. A high percentage of our leading consultant and surgeons today qualified in India. A friend of ours is one of these surgeons, specialising in audiology. Perhaps the most surprising thing is that her second discipline was virology. Her chosen virus was Corona, and it's mutation into humans as animals now have almost 100% immunity. This was 17 years ago. The lower cost of property and labor in India also allow them to produce top quality pharmaceuticals at a fraction of the cost. Handled correctly, this could be a win win situation for the UK, since our trading relationship with India goes back to the year sixteen hundred. Instead, our dozy politicians, OF ALL PARTIES. pour another drink and bury their heads in the sand, allowing China to sell us junk in exchange for all our stirling which they immediately invest in our property market. China already owns around 30% of property in London.
It's not as messed up as our system is in the US....so many people here without coverage. Health insurance is crazy expensive and doesn't cover the basics - so many people are just financially wiped out with a major illness. Health insurance is mostly tied to employer offered plans because of their group buying power, so if you lose your job, you lose your insurance. A family medical plan can easily cost $1500/month - and you'll still have thousands in deductibles you have to pay before they actually pay anything. Going out and buying your own health plan is even worse. Elder care is just plain out of reach for the normal family and can easily bankrupt you - any public facility, if you could ever find a vacancy, you wouldn't send a dog to.... I guess our only solution is to try to take care of ourselves.
