The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, announced that his government is considering the possibility of selling the country's prisons to private companies in order to build new penal facilities away from urban areas

#Argentina #DisasterCapitalusm #SouthAmerica #Politics #Privatization

#Healthcare #Privatization #Neoliberalfail
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-29-new-study-links-hospital-privatisation-worse-patient-care

Same here in the Netherlands, care is worse, prices rise sky high, money is roamed off at management and CEO level, all the while lambasting how Care is getting to expensive to keep in a social system... Yeah, because they cause it to be to expensive, and they can keep more and more procedures for rich folks only, poor folks better not be born, or some such shit.
It is a large attempt from the right to kill of social systems.

New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care | University of Oxford

#USA #privatization #healthcare

#USA #privatization #enshitification

#privatization is the #enshitification mechanism of #capitalism

Britain’s energy grid operator National Grid has paid out almost £28bn in dividends to shareholders since privatisation, while the pace of investment in the transmission network has stagnated, finds new research from Commonwealth think tank

https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/networks-grids/national-grid-pays-out-billions-to-shareholders-while-investment-in-transmission-network-declines/

#capitalism #billionaires

National Grid pays out billions to shareholders while investment in transmission network declines

Structural underinvestment in the UK’s transmission network by National Grid is a consequence of privatisation, argues a new report.

Starmer: reinstate our NHS as a fully public service

It is time for Keir Starmer to face the facts - private interests are sucking the life out of our NHS and preying on people who are suffering.

78% of the public, including a majority of Conservative voters, want our NHS fully publicly owned and delivered.

We need private interests OUT of our healthcare. Our NHS should work for PEOPLE NOT PROFIT.

Media reports suggest this may be the last Labour conference before a general election is called next year.

So private healthcare interests will no doubt be trying to get in the ear of Keir Starmer at Labour conference this year.

It has never been more important to make sure Keir Starmer hears our collective voice LOUD AND CLEAR.

Got a minute? Send Starmer an email:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/starmer-reinstate-our-nhs-fully-public-service

#Labour #Starmer #NHS #SaveOurNHS #Privatization #PrivatisationFails #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism

Starmer: reinstate our NHS as a fully public service

It is time for Labour to step up and save our NHS from private profiteers.

Privatization takes services away from people whose mission is to serve the public and gives them to people whose job is to figure out how to make money off of the public.

#privatization

Contingency plans being drawn up for #ThamesWater collapse | #Utilities | The Guardian

#Privatization of #WaterCompanies has been a disaster for customers and the #environment. The #infrastructure is still antiquated. Even the principle doesn't work. How can you have a choice of which company's #water comes through your taps? Meanwhile the bosses and shareholders have been lining their pockets.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/28/contingency-plans-reportedly-being-drawn-up-for-thames-water-collapse

#UK

Down the drain: how billions of pounds are sucked out of #England’s #water system | Water | The Guardian

An object lesson in why public utilities like water and electricity generation shown not me in private hands as they are a necessity.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/dec/01/down-the-drain-how-billions-of-pounds-are-sucked-out-of-englands-water-system

#UK #Politics #Privatization

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Medicare #Privatization #DonaldBiden ☞ 'Band-Aid on a Tumor': Critics Blast Biden Rebrand of Trump's Medicare Privatization Scheme https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/25/band-aid-tumor-critics-blast-biden-rebrand-trumps-medicare-privatization-scheme

Critics Blast Biden Rebrand of Trump's Medicare Privatization Scheme

The program constitutes a "backdoor privatization of Medicare," said one progressive advocate.

● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Privatization ☞ Texas’s Power Woes Are Just the Latest Reminder of the Danger of Privatization https://truthout.org/articles/texass-power-woes-are-just-the-latest-reminder-of-the-danger-of-privatization/

Texas’s Power Woes Are Just the Latest Reminder of the Danger of Privatization

Communities across the country are organizing against private interests to take control of their energy systems.

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #End—Medicare ☞ Physicians Slam Industry Push to 'Fix'—Not End—Medicare #Privatization Scheme https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/16/physicians-slam-industry-push-fix-not-end-medicare-privatization-scheme

Physicians Slam Industry Push to 'Fix'—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme

"We won't back down until Direct Contracting is shut down, for good."

Beware of Medicare Advantage plans

The privatization of #Medicare has been lucrative for the industry. Medicare Advantage plans are more expensive but have not been shown to provide better health outcomes. That disparity grows wider every year. The added costs born by the public to fund the program are believed to add up to tens of billions of dollars.

#government #health #insurance #privatization

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-created-program-privatize-medicare-144256974.html

● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #de ☞ #COVID19 and #Privatization in #Germany https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/21/covid-19-and-privatization-in-germany/

COVID-19 and Privatization in Germany

The Covid-19 crisis and the privatization of many healthcare systems are by no means separated entities – the one speeds up the other. While health

#privatization of #nhs #uk https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/uk-national-health-service-privatization-waiting-lists/ see http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2021/11/20/yorkshire-health-services-complaint/

The Private Sector Will Destroy the NHS, Not Save It

Some in the Labour Party support using the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists. But private health care is about putting profit over helping patients — not saving a public health system.

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #DonaldBiden ☞ Pressure Grows on #Biden to Shut Down Trump-Era #Medicare #Privatization Scheme https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/30/pressure-grows-biden-shut-down-trump-era-medicare-privatization-scheme

Pressure Grows on Biden to Shut Down Trump-Era Medicare Privatization Scheme

"The Biden administration is moving the DCE program forward, threatening the future of Medicare as we know it."

● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Finance ☞ How Public Workers Can Stop The #Privatization of Everything https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/24/how-public-workers-can-stop-the-privatization-of-everything/

How Public Workers Can Stop The Privatization of Everything

Several years ago, Don Cohen, a former central labor council staffer from San Diego, appeared on a panel discussing the privatization threats faced by

Public Libraries, one of the pillars of our civilization, are under threat

LS&S stands to make enormous profits by destroying decent-paying, unionized jobs and reducing library services to anti-human, vertically integrated content silos that do not reflect the values of local communities.

#Public #Library #privatization #for-profit #takeover

https://truthout.org/articles/public-private-partnerships-are-quietly-hollowing-out-our-public-libraries/

Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public Libraries

Private companies contracted to “streamline” public libraries are doing it at the cost of decent-paying union jobs.

Capital Versus Commons, 3

Against #Enclosure: The #Commonwealth Men

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/10/21/against-enclosure-the-commonwealth-men/

#IanAngus #angus #CapitalVersusCommons #capitalism #agriculture #england #robbingthesoil #systematic #theft #communal #property #privatization #food #farming #history #inequality #class #rich #poor #metabolicrift #protestant #reformers

Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men | Climate & Capitalism

How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture

Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghx0sq_gXK4

#technofeudalism #yanisvaroufakis #varoufakis #slavojzizek #zizek #economics #analysis #class-relations #tech #revolution #digital #capitalism #debt #economy #financialization #globalization #neoliberalism #professional #managerial #class #markets #privatization #personal #sovereignty