3 weeks left! Opt out of having your medical details sold on in perpetuity
The health reforms mean that from March, GPs are obliged to hand over your personal medical records to private companies and government agencies.
Apart from making a quick buck, the aim is as follows:
When the NHS is privatised, health insurance will be provided by people's employers like in America, at corporate prices. You will not be able to get health insurance on your own.
Access to medical records by private companies means that they would deny employment to anyone with an imperfect medical history.
You won't be able to get a job with any large corporation if they fear you are likely to claim on the insurance. And you won't be able to get insurance without having a job with a large corporation.
For the healthy, this doesn't just mean your current medical records either: think ahead to when you might be 50 and have a heart condition, lose your job and never be able to get a new one.
However, there is 'good' news if your medical history is bad. You can opt out of this. But you have to do it by March.
Go to this website: http://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/ download the forms and give them to your GP as soon as humanly possible.
You are in good company: a survey reveals that 41% of GPs will be personally opting out of the system themselves.
Apart from making a quick buck, the aim is as follows:
When the NHS is privatised, health insurance will be provided by people's employers like in America, at corporate prices. You will not be able to get health insurance on your own.
Access to medical records by private companies means that they would deny employment to anyone with an imperfect medical history.
You won't be able to get a job with any large corporation if they fear you are likely to claim on the insurance. And you won't be able to get insurance without having a job with a large corporation.
For the healthy, this doesn't just mean your current medical records either: think ahead to when you might be 50 and have a heart condition, lose your job and never be able to get a new one.
However, there is 'good' news if your medical history is bad. You can opt out of this. But you have to do it by March.
Go to this website: http://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/ download the forms and give them to your GP as soon as humanly possible.
You are in good company: a survey reveals that 41% of GPs will be personally opting out of the system themselves.
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