Drug company to lose out on profits, says the single payer system.

Who do you think will blink first.

So, the UK, as one of the most wealthy countries in the world is ill equiped and doesn't have the resources or talent to make its own medicines.

The NHS is more privatised that we care to think.

An example:

I have just had an ENT (ear nose and throat) appointment at my local hospital because I cannot hear in my left ear

The waiting room wasn't packed solid, staff were friendly, there was calm and efficiency all around, Unlike other waiting rooms I have visited.

I had a scan, all was OK. its just old age.

I had a long chat with the ENT specialist.

He told me that the building I had my NHS appointment in, was in fact a private part of the hospital.

hidden within the grounds of an NHS hospital, hiding in plain sight with NHS signage, is a privatised hospital wing.

He told me about the extreme costs that the NHS has to pay because of having to use prefered approved providers (politically connected suppliers) for all its medical equipment.

He pointed at all the medical machines (monty python, machines that go ping) in the room and said that his brother, a specialist in private practice, has exactly the same medical devices in his Slovakian practice that cost him £5,000.

Whereas the NHS has to pay up to £100,000 for exactly the same devices, because they are unable to source cheaper suppliers. they have restrictive contracts that forbids them from buying cheaper and better products from another supplier.

He told me that this is what is drainig NHS coffers of money that should be going to patient care.

Another case of hidden politically driven VIP lanes draining the NHS of its funding.