Here are the GP Practices taken over by US health insurance giant Centene

I find it incredible that NHS surgeries are being owned by large American companies. This is not what the founding fathers of the NHS had in mind in 1947/48. Boris, step up to the mark and make the NHS a British, publicly owned organisation., just as was planned in 1947 and became publicly owned when it came into existence in 1948.

Why isn't the British press making a fuss about this? The PM has said time and time again that he definitely won't privatise the NHS. Does Kier Starmer know about it? Why isn't he making a fuss too?

I thought D Cameron's government was the worst in my lifetime, but he was an innocent compared !

Once again, despite promises to the contrary, this government is selling off our national institutionsby stealth. It is time it was stopped and made public what they are about. It would be interesting to know how many of our MPs. and other public figures/organisations have shares etc in these companies.

This simply must not be allowed to happen.! What is our government thinking of? We as a nation do not want it.

this is a disgrace. I was unaware this was happening, I am sure most of the population would be horrified if they knew this was happening. How has sit been allowed to happen?

I had no idea. surely it should be the NHS that benefits from the everyday health system

This is the result of yet another Johnson lie. Once a liar, always a liar.

Please send the list to Private Eye who tend to be sympathetic to our cause. It's worth a try.

Tory governments have been hell bent on re privatising the NHS since 1948 The very idea of a public health service is anathema to their

ideology. If they could find a way to meter it they would sell the very air we breath. This government in particular stinks of corruption.

What a disgraceful state of affairs. How can the Tories get away with this? OUR pride & joy which they underfunded for years. Now selling Doctors Surgeries to America. Corruption of the Highest Degree!

I remember my father, who was a staunch supporter of the NHS, telling me that his father died, in 1941, of a simple chest infection, at the age of 53, simply because they couldn't afford medical care! If this 'government' gets its way, stories like this could well be come commonplace in the near future. The Tories have always been jealous of the NHS, because ithey has never come up with anything that is so popular with the electorate.

DO NOT TRUST THE tories WITH OUR NHS. tories, for the most part, are greedy, selfish LIARS. They are like pigs at the trough; they and their mates are feeding with gusto off of brexit and now Covid. How do they get away with it? I ought to be a conservative and have a lot to conserve but I could and would never vote tory; they are liars and bullies.

Do not trust the tories with the NHS. They cannot be trusted because they are ideologically, probably genetically, disposed to privatise all public services and, in particular, OUR NHS.

A further example of Tory duplicity and lies - this is our NHS and shouldn not be for salwe to rapacious profiteers. For the people not the few!

The problem is that GP services have always been privately owned since the inception of the NHS in 1948. Nye Bevan had to concede this in order to het GP’s on board in face of enormous opposition at yhe time grom the whole medical profession. What is needd is legislation to take these services out of private hands and place them in public ownership. As a Labour Party member I shall table a motion to this effect at my next branch meeting, demanding that it be made LP policy. I suggest all LP readers of this do the same.

It’s amazing what business can be done under the cloud of Covid and the chaos of Brexit .! So quietly and shadily.

How can you all be surprized?

tories despise us, the working class, ordinary people went on strike in 'The Great Unrest' during 1910 to 1914 and the tories have never forgotten it!

During WW2 there were more than 2000 'stoppages' with workers wanting better pay and conditions and the tories have never forgotten it!

In 1943 soldiers in the 8th Army were pressured into denouncing strikes and 'The 8th Army News' headlined with "The right to strike is one of the freedoms we are fighting for" and the tories have never forgotten it!

tony liar and his pal Gordon Brown tried to stop strikes when THEY invaded Iraq.

Surely ever since thatcher who used (probably) the police and the press against the miners in 1982 and later on the fire fighters, you must see what a disgusting and despicable bunch the tories are.

During the covid 19 pandemic if you knew an mp you could get a contract to supply PPE, never mind that it was useless as long as you got the contract. serco failed at track and trace - apparently the CEO doesn't know the company failed -

but he and his shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank.

Think of the tories in the same way as donald trump; self seeking, greedy, bombastic heartless bullies.

Why wouldn't they sell our NHS to their old school chums or the Americaan health insurance companies, if there's a few quid in it for them?

So they have taken over the one I am registered with. Not happy about this at all.

Keep our NHS for the people.

I have known for 3 or 4 years that my GP had become totally different!!! I am old enough to remember at the beginning of the war I was very ill and given a new drug (M&B antibiotic) and every Fri night the Doctors wife came to collect money for my treatment they too were not wealthy!!! Do some of Government have shares in these companies? My Father has been sold up the road for what he fought for in 1945.The GP all most told me I was a old fool and I did not what I was talking about.Treatment at the GP is nil and the newspapers should make it known.

"A free Health Service is a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative appled to a segment of a society where commercial principles are seen at their worst." Aneurin Bevan, "In Place of Fear" 1952.

One chap here said "why are we so powerless. Things like this cannot be stopped if one party,, has a majority, that can defeat all the opposition parties, even when they are working together! This is currently the case for the tories right now. And as everything the government does, or does not do, is in the name of the Queen, the tories can do what they like! Neither the Tories or the monarch, give two hoots about the will of the people, and don't have to anyway, because of glaring faults, in the Parliamentary system of the UK. Until this is rectified no government in this country can be held accountable, by the people! This is a common, mistaken belief held by nearly everyone in the UK. That is where the real problem lies in the UK. NO GOVERNMENT CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANYTHING!!

I love the NHS. I am proud of it when i look at healthcare provision around the around the world i feel lucky. But the reality is that there are greedy money-makers particularly America who want to get their dirty hands on our healthcare provision and we have to fight that all the way

Parts of the NHS should not be owned by any company, be it British, American or anybody.

I am horrified at the privatisation by stealth of our wonderful NHS. I am old enough - just - to remember what it was like before we had universal health care free at the point of access. My parents suffered from not being able to afford to pay as they were from poor working class families. Why is there not a national campaign of outrage to stop this? Do people really believe the private sector can do it better? I have lived in the USA and know the one thing that people there obsess about is their inability to pay for health care. Even those who have insurance find it is not comprehensive. There is no excuse that we cannot afford it. After WW2 this country was in no different a situation to what we are now and yet the NHS was set up, pensions introduced, education for all. Neither my husband nor I would be alive if it was not for the NHS. Making profit from people's suffering is a disgrace and morally corrupt. We have to fight!

Save our NHS we need it and would never be able to pay for our medications .It is disgusting how dare these politicians do this!