Andrew Lansley: "the first guiding principle" of reform should be to "maximise competition" (UK)?

Beyond any shred of doubt Lansley's sole aim is to privatise the NHS!

Besides being slavishly devoted to Thatcherite, ideological dogma he, and others, are in line to make a small fortune from the breakup and subsequent sell-off the NHS!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-exp...

The point of competition is that it forces people to try harder or face failure. It is a recipe for excellence, rather than sullen time serving one encounters in Socialist societies. However, it is too easily subverted by cartels, backstabbing and buying out the competition, so all we end up with is an uncompetitive near-monopoly, but run without any requirement to act in the public interest.

In addition, for competition for work, it requires there to be at least as many losers as winners, and often many times more losers than winners. Anyone applying for a job recently will know that of the several hundred applicants shortlisted to seven excellently suited and qualified candidates, there can only be one winner. It can be breathtakingly wasteful of human talent.

How many on the X Factor actually go on to be famous, and are they any better than those who make modest livings in Butlins, pubs, or the regional theatre companies, and are not too concerned about the big time?

In the case of the health service, can we really afford the luxury of competitive redundancy when really we need every doctor and nurse to be working at full capacity?

The Free Marketeers like to point to the USA as a model of success. Why then is travel insurance so much costlier to go there than anywhere else in the world?

Every single species on planet Earth - including we humans - benefit infinitely more when it cooperates and communicates about its problems, objectives and development. The animal kingdom is filled with extremely successful animals, all of which work together to considerably enhance their prospects of survival and development. Communication and cooperation allow for the almost perfect usage of all resources, with the absolute minimum of wastage! Competition significantly impedes development, wastes - to a fantastic degree - the not inexhaustible resources that are available, turns creatures against each other, as greed becomes the primary objective within the competitive society and self-interest replaces nearly all compassion!

However, there are some that gain from this competitive society: A few thousand humans that possess more wealth than can be imagined (and these 'people' own the media!) They no doubt see the images of children starving to death each year in the recurrent famines which are a direct consequence of our competitive society!

Our competitive society is destroying our planet, destroying our future and destroying us. Humans are the only species that base everything upon competition, and consequently, we are destroying this world.

Competition is by far the worst principle that any society can ever be based upon!

By which he actually means to maximise the profits of commercial healthcare service providers - and every penny of profit they make is looted from public funds, which means from you and from me.

Tart it up anyway the like it will be privatisation.

The Tories HATE anything that doesn`t turn a profit for businessman.

He is not privatising anything you bunch of idiots, no wonder Labour are a joke you go nothing apart from scare stories, rumours and daft grannies.