The BMA wakes up

The BMA has finally woken up to what is happening to our health service. Sadly it is too late. Powerful forces have lined up to nobble the political parties. Market forces and privatisation of NHS services are the future. There is no stopping it. The public do not want this but many out there are convinced that this will make the NHS more responsive and efficient. The ways of the Soviets have been seen to fail. The Soviet Union has been dismantled. Now it's time for the NHS to go the same way.

Dr Grumble is convinced that these changes will not get the taxpayer more bang for his buck. Quite the opposite. Until all the recent meddling, the NHS was widely recognised as the most cost effective healthcare system in the world. It might not have been the best but that was because until very recently the NHS was starved of money. Now that more money has been coming in more money has been wasted on multiple silly initiatives and the introduction of a market. It costs a lot to run a market. It's all money down the drain. Choice and competition may work in the high street. They don't in healthcare. Mechanisms to try and make it work such as Choose and Book have been expensive failures. But in the current climate with Big Business and other powerful forces lined up to argue the case for privatisation it is a challenge to get the message across that we are heading in the wrong direction. Not even the disaster of the banks has brought home to government that Big Business is like MPs - just out to make as much money from the taxpayer as it possibly can.

So now the BMA has woken up, should Dr Grumble rejoin to show some solidarity? Or should he leave them to waste the subs of his colleagues on an initiative that is doomed to failure?