🔮 :brexit: Post-Brexit prediction thread

[Map-Of-Tasmania]

Sorry you are missing the point. The need for a US deal will mean US demands to let US healthcare insurers trade here - up until now with Bupa and the like it does not allow insured access to more expensive drugs - yes you can pay a one off if drugs are approved by the EMA, but you don’t get Two tiers of therapy on the NHS… I suspect that any US trade deal will open the doors for US healthcare giants to trade here and offer ‘enhanced access ‘ not just to private rooms and queue jumping, but to new medicines…

Yes the Government have been eroding the NHS, but the need for a US deal will see that accelerate and alter the playing field considerably… and see major price hikes for the expensive meds… because it will be covered for those paying expensive insurance premiums… this is not project fear, this is the future where less regulation is enforced as part of trade ‘negotiations’

It will be worse if Boris really does walk away from a EU deal… because as the numbers of possible partners declines so does the strength of our hand as everyone knows we become more desperate… it’s why Boris is desperate to push in with US talks now … US will wait though until they see outcome of EU negotiations…

[scotty]

Well, predictions are what this thread is for.

[pap]

There is no need for a US trade deal. The two countries are already each others’ biggest inward investors. Trading will still continue on those WTO terms and domestic legislation as per.

When you boil it down, what we really don’t want in this country is people not having access to healthcare and getting less healthy or less alive as a result.

But if we’re honest, we already have a two-tier health system. People do die on waiting lists that would have been saved by expensive private alternatives.

It’s private insurance based healthcare this country really needs to prevent. The government that attempts to make this mandatory will be the next opposition.