All in this together: the corporate capture of public health
BMJ2012;345doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8082(Published 17 December 2012)Cite this as:BMJ2012;345:e8082
Jennifer S Mindell, clinical senior lecturer1,
Lucy Reynolds, research fellow2,
David L Cohen, consultant physician3,
Martin McKee, professor of European public health4
This article published in the British Medical Journal in 2012 would give the covid era sceptics visibly firm ground to stand on. ‘ Trust The Science’ mantra was annoying both because science is not a religion or a faith based system, and because trust is the last thing that science would expect from anyone. Still more annoying was placing ’the’ in front of science.
Science is subjected to unfailing scrutiny, premises must continually be tested. It never ‘arrives’ formed. “Trust the science” is what happens when marketers meet profiteers. It is a shame based slogan meant to evoke a response from the easily cordoned and corralled.
“The UK government is increasingly handing over its role of health policy maker to private corporations
Society has changed fundamentally over the past 30 years. Citizens have become consumers with status proportional to purchasing power, and former public spaces have been enclosed and transformed into private malls for shopping as recreation or “therapy.” Step by step, private companies, dedicated to enriching their owners, take over the core functions of the state. This process, which has profound implications for health policy,1 is promoted by politicians proclaiming an “ideology” of shrinking the state to the absolute minimum. These politicians envisage replacing almost all public service provision through outsourcing and other forms of privatisation such as “right to provide” management buyouts.2 This ambition extends far beyond health and social care, reaching even to policing and the armed forces.
Superficially, a case can be made for privatisation. Economic theorists argue that the creative energy of private companies will unlock innovation. Freed from state bureaucracy they will find new, clever ways of doing things better and cheaper. Yet the reality is often different. They appear more “efficient” than the public sector providers they replace, but they achieve this efficiency only by cutting wages or by failing to deliver what they promise. The list of failures grows daily, from the very public failure of the security services company G4S at the 2012 Olympics to the local problems of Serco’s out of hours general practitioner service in Cornwall.3”
I have not read the full text (if you have access link it. ) as such, I don’t know it’s entire slant. Often I find one criticism is used to pave the way to the same result by offering the other path to the same place. It is not just public health which is captured.
It seems like the whole system and all that is catalogued within it is captured. Which is why of course they want to catalog even religious beliefs. the last bastion of thought, in the age of science, is ironically religion. Or our God spark.
So the corporations and NGOS/socialism will both get you to the same place. Maybe historically the right trusted the corporations ala WEF, and the left trusted the NGOS. Now however, the merger has been so thorough as of late. The power structure owns them both.
But I loved the title just the same.
One ring to rule them all.
Limiting the state’s functions is occurring through lobbying, through increasing corporate profiteering and utilization of tax dollars for the purpose of artificially increasing the corporate space and control, but also through NGOS who place globalism as the means of transnational governance and who likewise take a hefty amount of tax dollars to do so.
Strong Nation States threaten what? Answer: the control matrix that has been forged over decades. Properly utilized they offer the means to alter the effect of power not in the citizens interest.
So who directs this NGO WEF Corporate animal?
Are they all being directed by the union class? the empty academic class? the UN bureaucrat class? the lobbyists? the Vanguard shareholders? or does it all come down to the central banks and their very private owners.
Could it be the most voracious world power that is profiting the most from the globalist tragedies and the transnational tropes is most in control? ie the CCP.
The citizen is vastly better served in the protective boundaries of a strong nation state with excellent principles of auto-determination, the Rule of Law and a good Bill of Rights.
(Not identity politics as a competitive ideology to displace these protections. Identity politics and DIE form a competition to the Rule of Law, Bill of Rights and principles of auto-determination, and so displace these concepts, while seemingly empowering those who benefit most from the concepts they displace).
Citizens are waking to this and we are in the battle of our times where the forces (wherever they come from) coalesce with the forces of citizens realizing what is at stake.
Some ideas are figuratively, an eternity in the making. And we do not want to be thrust back into the cave.
Tyranny wishes to defeat our democracy (or the US Republic), it comes so beautiful in glitter for some, in vaccines for your safety for other or still the massive green manifesto for others. The greater good is Marxism so thinly disguised. It is barely a mask.
If you believe the polarization whether left or right, or private v NGO describes the issues, then you are a pawn on the chess board, or attached to the puppeteer. Or I suppose profiting from the current matrix set up.
Wake up.
Hi LawyerLisa
I agree that these are the questions that need to be asked. Of late I think its the unknown secret names behind the Central Banks. I watched the David Rogers-Webb "Great Taking " interview. Yes it's all about following the money, the real money . I think that's at the core of this onion .
https://rumble.com/v489tkc-you-will-own-nothing-because-they-will-steal-everything-david-rogers-webb.html
Thanks for your substack
Public Private Partnerships can be and must be resisted.
Corp Fascism