Both systems face the same problems, only one system has to unneccesarily leverage profit and provide a continued accelerated growth of profit to appease shareholders. I wonder if the fat cats will lose out or us?
I don't think either system works well, hence my comment before. We have to foster innovation. Monopolies are seldom innovative.
That is the reality we find ourselves in. Healthcare simply must become more affordable. Other places in the world can provide top notch healthcare for a fraction of what it costs here.
NHS satisfaction levels are at an all time high.
As mentioned before, it's no good comparing absolutely, you have to look relatively, and the only way to do that is to compare against international metrics, and we don't do that well internationally.
Record profits by British gas and all the other utilities, regardless of fluctuations in pricing.
Again, it's little use looking at BG in isolation. Have profit margins across the industry risen? How does BG compare to other gas suppliers? How much have wholesale gas prices risen internationally?
The green grocers are cheaper than the Supermarkets. The Supermarkets source their veg from all over the world to make the profits greater - regardless of the seasonality and the produce in question. I bought asparagus the other day from Tesco. It's only when I got home I saw that it was from Kenya. The damn stuff is in season in England now. Capitalism that mate.
And of course it's a terrible thing to let people in Kenya trade themselves out of poverty. We should protect our markets via tariffs such as CAP and then patronise these people by sending aid to them.
Under the Tory plans, GP's pay will only increase. Especially considering kick backs from private health carecompanies; inevitably they'll buy shares in these companies and it'll all become a nice cosy rich conspiracy.
There's no basis for this claim. GPs pay shouldn't increase, unless the market determines that they should. Being bullied by trade unions ala the train drivers in London recently is no way to determine pay.
Later in this little right wing diatribe you state that GP's wont overstep their Hippocratic oath. Which is it? You can't have it both sides of the debate. Right now, PATIENTS are the priority and this is almost indisputable. Profits will become the priority when we get treated like Customers. Perhaps you don't want to admit it here as it would be toxic to your argument, but we both know it.
Could you say that in a more patronising way?

This argument is sound. Holisitic approaches to health care show great dividends - but its hardly germane to this issue. That's health care policy, nothing to do with proposed reforms.
That's the thing though, as things stand the govt dictates policy on health, so if they say prevention doesn't matter so much then that's how it is. One idea, one approach. With competition you'd at least hopefully get various suppliers trying things out and thus improving things iteratively.
Of course there are variations. They will increase within a market. You cannot deny that. Take a train if you don;t believe me - or if you can afford the fare.
I don't think train privatisations have worked at all. They've taken a national monopoly and replaced it with regional monopolies. A balls up if ever there was.