Hospitals will be forced to make cuts to pay for a massive rise in the bills for Labour's controversial private finance programme after the next general election.
Whitehall documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph reveal a financial bombshell which will hit the next Government.
The cost of NHS building deals agreed since 1997 will swell by almost one quarter from 2011 to 2014, necessitating billions of pounds in "efficiency savings", which are already being drawn up by trusts.
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Of a total £60 billion debt owed to the developers, less than £5 billion will have been paid to them by the time of a likely general election next May, the document, disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, shows
Quite where the money from this is going to be found is anyone's guess. But clearly health services are going to have to be slashed. And this is before we face down the issue of general public debt.
However, one of the worst things about these awful PFI schemes is they will be used as evidence, by our lefty friends, that the free market doesn't work.
As is clear though, these PFI schemes have nothing to do with the free market. They have more to do with Nu-Labour's corporate fascist policies. Which uses the private sector to achieve state aims.
Ultimately the only way to begin to resolve the health service problems in this country is to privatise the supply of medical care.
How this is funded is another question. But the supply of medical care has to be privatised if we want to see any improvement in the service. And stop these crazy funding disasters occurring again.
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Can anyone tell me when Gordon Brown will be arrested and charged with treason?
Surely no later than the day after the next general election, as he departs Downing Street?
If bankrupting your country isn't treason, then what is?
So many questions .....
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