Tory Kwasi Kwarteng has told Good Morning Britain (GMB) that private healthcare insurance will have to “play a part” in the future of the NHS.
Kwarteng argued against using taxation to fund a service that “always needs more money just to stay still”. However, this has been the case since the NHS’s inception post-WWII.
Funnily enough, decades after its founding, the Tories — aided by Kwarteng — have been chronically underfunding and under resourcing the NHS as official government policy, stripping its parts for the profits of the ultra-wealthy.
Privatisation is why it has grown more expensive with the taxpayer seeing less value for money — and now Kwarteng and his right-wing cronies want you to aid these profits further by giving up on a free healthcare service and paying for likely expensive insurance premiums.
All the while, the UK has seen the rich get ever richer, whilst inequality widens. It won’t be the rich hurt by this policy — although they will fund the profits. But it will have very real and fatal consequences for ordinary people.
Kwasi Kwarteng: Private insurance will have to play a part in the future of the NHS
This was always the goal. The Tories deliberately broke up the NHS (internal market/outsourcing) & understaffed & underfunded services for years in order to make it fail & bring us to this point pic.twitter.com/Ch2dfKorYD
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 2, 2026
People need to wake up to the real enemy of the people
For months now, much of the threat of NHS privatisation has been laid at the feet of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has done little to conceal his enthusiasm for dismantling the NHS and opening it up to private profit.
But the desire to dismantle and privatise our health service is not confined to any one political party.
The Conservatives spent years expanding the role of private companies within the NHS following Labour introduction of PFIs under Blair — and Burnham. All the while, they introduced austerity measures to add insult to injury and compound the harm.
Labour has continued those policies that funnel public money towards private interests, taking lofty donations from private healthcare. Reform are simply determined to push that agenda even further and faster than its predecessors.
No matter who holds power, the health of ordinary people remains under threat.
The NHS belongs to all of us. It was built on the principle that healthcare should be provided according to need, not wealth – and generations of people have paid into that system with the expectation that it would be there when they needed it.
Turning healthcare into a vehicle for private profit means diverting public money away from patient care and towards greedy shareholders, executives and wealthy investors. In contrast, as so often happens in the class-war society we live in, it will be those without wealth and privilege who pay the highest price.
When critical healthcare becomes a commodity, the people who cannot afford it are the ones left behind.
The rich are choking the NHS — and intend to cash in at the end
Once again, ordinary people are being sacrificed at the altar of profit.
Private equity choking UK health and social care.
Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care.
Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records.
Profiteering leaves less for patient care.https://t.co/AfpKYXxp94
— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) September 2, 2026
Those representing hard-working people in the NHS, informed by lived experience working in our healthcare services, have long called for quite the opposite — real solutions for the entire population and to finally say no to profiteers seeking to exploit our increasingly flailing health:
It’s time for Labour to get serious about rebuilding our NHS.
That means massive new public investment in healthcare instead of more money for war, and a decisive end to privatisation and outsourcing.
My speech to our health conference today
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— Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary (@AndreaEganGS) April 13, 2026
It gets even more shady
Some of the super-rich are now openly contradicting their own supposed commitment to free-market principles. Lord Alan Sugar has attempted to argue that one of the world’s richest men should effectively become responsible for supplying the NHS, under the guise of creating a more “centralised” system.
I have often thought that one of the ways to reduce cost as the NHS would be to centralise purchasing for all items from cotton wool buds to MRI machines.
These days Amazon boast that you can place an order at 10 am and it can be delivered by 4pm the same day.
Imagine a…— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) September 2, 2026
But centralisation does not automatically mean efficiency. After all, handing enormous purchasing power to Amazon risks creating precisely the kind of monopoly that free-market advocates supposedly oppose. We have seen the impacts of these monopolies in the privatised water industry — it only benefits the shareholders, not the consumers.
If the argument is genuinely about efficiency and saving taxpayers money, then competition should matter. NHS services should be able to compare suppliers, negotiate prices and choose the products that offer the best combination of cost and quality. Currently, they do not have that freedom.
Otherwise, “centralisation” risks becoming little more than a convenient way of concentrating vast amounts of public money and purchasing power into fewer private hands. Likewise with private health insurance companies.
It is difficult to square that with the supposed principles of the free market.
However, the NHS is not breaking under its own weight — politicians and profiteers are deliberately piling that weight onto it.
We can all see now that we cannot afford the greed of the richest in our society any longer.
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People who work to dismantle nhs are future murderers
