A New Pandemic Begins And The US Buys The NHS, w Stephen Fry.

A more deadly pandemic emerges and US corporations buy the NHS.

Voiced by Stephen Fry

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Sources and resources:

Why big pharma has abandoned antibiotics:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02884-3

CEO pay at top 6 health insurance firms up 45% in a year:
https://www.axios.com/health-care-ceo-pay-2020-pandemic-fb585a6c-dd1d-4a20-8561-44a6bac6d39d.html
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/pay-for-each-of-these-6-health-insurance-ceos-surpasses-15m.html

18000 die each year from lack of health insurance:
https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/how-many-uninsured-americans/

US support for universal healthcare is rising:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage/

NHS nurses paid less than 10 years ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/22/nhs-staff-have-lost-thousands-in-real-pay-since-2011-study-finds

Drop in nurses coming to the UK
https://www.health.org.uk/chart/chart-large-drop-in-the-number-of-new-nurses-coming-from-the-eu-to-work-in-the-uk

Health care system performance by country:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorly

Health spending by country:
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/

US health admin costs:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2785479
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200218.375060/full/