You don't know what you've got until the government steals it from you.

The NHS is being sold off to private firms without the permission of the British public. They have been in the process of doing this for years. This is a huge deal for people in the UK: it is literally life and death. If you live in the UK, please sign the petition here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/205106

This issue means a hell of a lot to me because the NHS saved my life last year. I had an 9cm by 9cm by 8cm bacterial mass and they fixed it for me free of charge. If I had lived in the US I would have gone bankrupt paying the fees or died when it ruptured. There is no way I could ever afford the insurance, let alone the treatments.

Let me give you a little taste of what's coming, UK, assuming we get the American Model:

Insurance costs an average of £232 per person or £601 for a family. PER MONTH. Your insurer has the right to deny you on basically any grounds and you will probably still be paying some hospital fees regardless of if you have insurance or not. If your insurer can avoid paying your costs, they will. And when you are deemed a liability, your costs will go up or your plan will be canceled. You are not a person to them - you are a cash cow.

But why is this happening? Greed. Pure and simple. As Noam Chomsky explains, privatization happens like this:

* Defund it.

* Make sure it doesn't don’t work

* People get angry.

* Hand it over to private capital.

* Profit.

Thanks for reading. If you want to read more about this, check out this article:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-health-department-nhs-legal-action-americanise-privatisation-customers-id-pay-a8033986.html