National News Who ya gonna trade with?

it will be written into the trade deal that the current situation where there is a body that decides which drugs the NHS can use and what they pay for them is scrapped, it will then be open for US companies to sell down to clinician level as happens in the US.

That would be the death of the NHS almost overnight.

A centralized medical system in which different services are available under different cost structures in different parts of the network just isn't viable.

At best, you'd have to break it up into a system more akin to the French model of independently (some privately) managed hospitals.

Now, you could certainly make an argument that this wouldn't be a bad thing - the French medical system, after all, is usually ranked up there with the world's best. But politically, I would not want to be the party that broke up the National Health Service.
 
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