Profit instead of people?

Having a business mentality in every aspect of your life is not always such a great thing. If you were selling clothes or handbags it would be fine because the consumer has other choices and their lives don't depend on it. Yet what I find troubling is when people talk about healthcare in the same way, they say things like " competition" and " profits" and nowhere in the discussion do I hear about improving care for everyone- just the very rich.

People may argue that the American style healthcare system wont come over here because the people will be outraged, yet we have other " American" style things that already here like, GMO's, Fracking and OBESITY! So just because people say it will never happen doesn't necessarily mean its not going to happen anyway. This country has an insane obsession about being more like them, tell what about them do you find so appealing, is it the rampant poverty and homelessness, the obesity, the fact that most of the population is violently allergic to something or the blatant racism and homophobia and last but not least- the low standard of public education??

The only thing this Government has its eyes firmly fixed on is PROFITS and the success of the corporations. How do you think they made all those profits??? They made them through the naked exploitation of the public, the same public that the people in power were elected to protect, but I forget... they weren't actually elected in the true " democratic" sense, they were bought and paid for by these very same corporation in the guise of lobbyists which is the same as bribery!

The Americanization has already started here and it saddens mean that people can't see where this is headed. The NHS has already been gutted, thanks to the austerity plan, parts of the NHS are already owned or in the process of being acquired by private companies, and because the services are losing funding the care that you receive will also go down. All this cost cutting will force people to get private health care and the rest will suffer and have to put up with substandard care and absurd waiting times, all due to the fact that nurses and doctors have been cut due to cost cutting measures and all in the name of higher profits!

People should really think about where this is headed, a world where everything even our lives are only valuable if they make a profit, is that a world you really want your children and grandchildren to live in?