27 March 2020 — Welfare Weekly
Urgent action still needed to support self-employed, says poverty charity
Government plans don’t go far enough and Universal Credit should not be seen as a viable solution for the self-employed.
Day: March 27, 2020
COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal”
27 March 2020 — The Lancet
Richard Horton
“When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.” So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unprecedented, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the cause.
Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked
27 March 2020 — Novara Media
by Jo Sutton-Klein
Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS, as the service struggles to cope.
Since the 1990s the UK’s healthcare provision has been subjected to increasing marketisation, in particular through the so-called internal market. Introduced by Margaret Thatcher, this system splits the NHS into purchasers and providers who must trade with one another.
The War on Death
27 March 2020 — Off Guardian
CJ Hopkins
OK, I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. The good news is mainly for authoritarians who missed all the fun during the War on Terror. The news is … welcome to the War on Death!
Why France is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure
26 March 2020 — Asia Times
The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic
By Pepe Escobar
What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it.
The New Dark Age 