Poppycock Partnerships /Corruption and the undermining of public health all over the world
pop·py·cock
ˈpäpēˌkäk/
noun
INFORMAL
- nonsense.
synonyms: nonsense, rubbish, claptrap, balderdash, blather, moonshine, garbage;
informalrot, tripe, jive, hogwash, baloney, drivel, bilge, bunk, eyewash, piffle,
phooey, twaddle;informalbushwa, malarkey, gobbledygook, mumbo jumbo;informal,bunkum, tommyrot;vulgar slangcrapola, verbal diarrhea"their claims are poppycock"Unfortunately, many governments today are withdrawing from their responsibility to provide quality health services to people and are resorting instead to 'public-private partnerships' (PPPs).(poppycock) Eager votaries of such PPPs and state-supported health insurance schemes would have us believe that the state should hand over large-scale public funds to the private medical sector, based on the uncritical assumption that private providers will provide good quality health care to the population. In this context, these scathing reflections on the private medical sector from within the medical profession provide us with a healthy counterview. These observations give us a glimpse of what we might expect if the state decides to hand over responsibility for providing health care on a large-scale to unregulated, profit-driven private agencies, without any regulation or accountability.Allyson Pollock and her co-researcher Mark Hellowell argue that capital investment through PFI creates a large public sector cash liability. For example, they say that the £5.2 billion of PFI investment in Scotland has created a public sector cash liability of £22.3bn.[7] This cash liability is 'off balance-sheet' and does not show up on government statistics such as the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (PSBR).Pollock et al. conclude that the true risks of many privately financed contracts are not calculated correctly
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