Reform’s newest MP backs scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance, saying that the healthcare system needs to be more β€œefficient”

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-mp-backs-privatising-the-nhs

January 25, 2026 - 11:30 UTC

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Profit drive healthcare is never more efficient.
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And that goes for any services. Just look at the state of the UK's water companies.
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Well he can f**k off as well then!
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Aka "doesn't treat poor people"
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And also doesn't even consider pre-existing conditions.
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That's what Romford voted for. Thank goodness they are all above needing universal credit or a pension, otherwise they'd be very worried
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Ah yes. Privatisation. Let's look at how efficient private water companies are.
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Perhaps he should ask anyone in the US if they think their health care is "efficient"
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Those who vote Reform complain about everything yet do absolutely nothing to improve anything.

Indistinguishable from the deplorable MAGA crowd, they'll vote to screw themselves if it means they can screw those they've been conditioned to hate - mostly 'lefties', 'elites', and people of colour.
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How much more 'efficient' can the #NHS become after years of #Austerity without killing it?

Reform sit on their furry, private health-insured arses and preach more cutbacksHow much more 'efficient' can the #NHS become after years of #Austerity without killing it?
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Message from America: Do NOT do that.
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Shock.
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His idea of making it more efficient is to remove all the patients.

It's bad enough having ten of millions of Americans who don't have healthcare because it costs so much without adding tens of millions of British to that number too.
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IMO there's nothing efficient about private healthcare!
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Ahh...these patriots! How come they want everything American... they removed us from a Union only to have us become a vassal state.
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more efficent at killing people.
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For all those wanting an insurance based health care system, I’m sure Bupa would be happy to give them a quote
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What utter tosh from a very nasty man. The NHS is by far the most cost effective system, it just doesn't make profits for his mates.
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So far, the secret of Reform’s success has been to keep their true intentions hidden.

But now Rosindell has let the cat out of the bag.

Vote Leave β€˜won’ the referendum on the lie that leaving the EU would mean more more money for the NHS.

But Farage was always a US stooge who hated the NHS.
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So make it more efficient. Newspeak for β€œprofitable”.
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What private healthcare insurance companies does he have shares in?
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At least he found his true calling.
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Insurance is about risk. Why would anyone insure a sick person? Look at the USA.
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Those Healthcare Company shares are just resting in his portfolio.
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Rosindell is just a nasty old bastard. Hopefully, destined to return to political oblivion.
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He is NOT a Reform MP....Reform have only ever won 5 seats! The rest (including this one) were elected as Tories and have betrayed their constituents. They should have been forced to a by-election if their "consciences" led them to change allegiances!
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What an idiot. It will be as efficient as water companies.
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I think what he's actually saying is that the healthcare system needs to be sold off to private American healthcare companies in return for a nice big bung (a la Trump), leaving much of the population with no healthcare cover and those needing v expensive care in debt for years or bankrupt.
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Private care only seems more efficient because it does do as much as the NHS! I’d rather pay more tax than give another billionaire more money. Reform working for the billionaires again.
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A lot of people in work with private health insurance live in a fantasy world whereby they don’t realise the insurance stops when they retire and that’s the age where they need healthcare. The premiums post retirement are huge.
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By *efficient* does he mean *profitable* for the health insurance companies?
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Like the water companies! πŸ˜‰
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Of course he does, he would be making more money out of it, hasn't he got enough?
Money matters to him, not people
Greedy scumbag
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He should go and live in the USA if he doesn’t believe or care about universal healthcare for UK citizens
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Efficient systems will not provide care for terminally ill: it's a waste of money, the ill are gonna die anyway.
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Does he mean "More efficient at funneling money up to the already stinking rich"?
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He could replace it with private insurance, he could get healthcare to be more efficient. He certainly can't get both. I'd prefer the latter. Of course, being the type he is, he thinks efficient means government spends less money, regardless of how useless the outcomes are.
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W####R
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Another moron
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This is what the ignorant sods will get if (and when) they vote this bunch of charlatans into government; the people who say, "they're all the same", then when the country ends up as a shambles (as it did when they voted for Brexit), they won't blame themselves. Sadly there's no cure for stupidity.
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They keep blaming my Prime Minister for Brexit when he flat out told them not to do it.
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trump nasty playback.
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The first step to an insurance based system.
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Definitely should be by-elections! He was voted in on a conservative manifesto not a reform one.
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Labour spending far too much time talking about Andy Burnham and the Greens and nowhere near enough about this. Reform, like Trump in the US is proving are existential threats to our way of life.
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Well, he can just go fuck himself, can’t he!
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Bastard
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Open door here for other and opposing parties.

It should be in huge capital letters on every election leaflet that if you vote for Reform, healthcare will cost you "X" amount of money in private insurance every year.
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And, in addition, we can all see what a huge success the privatisation of dental services has been.

Unless taking out the Reform PLC's private health care was made compulsory, a lot of folk simply wouldn't bother doing so, expecting to be able to be treated as they have been in the past.
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There we have it. Reform's agenda for our healthcare.
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Of the very few things the country agrees upon, preserving the NHS is probably top of the list. Reform are saying they will scrap it is a vote loser.

Moving everyone onto private insurance will not result in a single new hospital, a single new doctor or the fixing of social care.
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For most of us, the privatisation of the water companies tells us exactly what happens when a public service is handed over to the private sector.

People are not that stupid and won't fall for that nonsense a second time round.

And that's even before we even mention the disaster that is Brexit !
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I thought saving the NHS was how Reform persuaded people to vote YES on BREXIT. The money going to membership in the EU would be invested in the NHS. Shameless.
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:D
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Privatisation would achieve the exact opposite, just like in the US, where twice as much is spent per capita, with significantly worse outcomes (and a lot of money creamed off in profit).
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There are times I think all British people should spend a year or so living in the US.

It would teach a few lessons. One being to punch anybody in the face the moment they suggest replacing the NHS with a profit-driven American-style healthcare denial system.

A year's probably too cruel, though.
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Laugh or cry? Efficiency? Mamma mia, that old myth.
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The ultra cosy relationship between big capital (e.g billionnaires who profit the most from privatisation) and Reform and the Conservatives has seldom been more brazen.
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Someone check his donors/business interests.
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Beware a Reform claim that National Insurance will be abolished along with the NHS. NI funds the state pension, and unemployment and social security benefits. If it goes, they go.

The older age groups who support Reform most will be screwed by them. A little like the 'Hispanics for Trump'.
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NI was created to fund social security.

....until Tory Bliar began using it to finance the disastrous (4th!) British invasion of Afghanistan rather than the Gulf Arabs who financed, planned, & carried out 911

And now his son is Β£700m richer thanks in part to the Gulf Arabs whose bacon pater saved
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About time Reform voters woke up to what would/will happen if they got into no 10 - Farage will shaft them and us totally. Look over the Atlantic to get a preview...
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The mask is slipping. The right wing just don't believe in the NHS. In the USA where they have an insurance based healthcare system, many Americans have to take on huge debt to fund their medical costs. Another reason not to let Farage anywhere near Downing Street.
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Plenty of people who have worked hard all their lives for a decent retirement have been forced intro penury by astronomical healthcare costs.

People forget that when you are working, the employer often pays for healthcare. That goes in retirement - which is when people often need healthcare btw !!
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Efficiency is not what private health care is known for. Just look at the life expectancy in the US compared to Europe, and the number of healthcare bankruptcies.
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