A huge chunk of advanced countries' healthcare budgets go to treating diabetes and other obesity-related diseases. It's a problem for every healthcare system.

Privatising the NHS is not the answer. Contrary to popular belief, privately supplied healthcare is far more expensive than a single payer system, two or three times even.

But privatising the NHS is exactly what's going to happen and the public 's erroneous belief that privatised business is more efficient than government-run business will mean that the public eventually have to pay huge healthcare costs. We'll be like America where families are impoverished and bankrupted when they lose their healthcare due to losing their job or they reach lifetime limits on coverage or their continuing healthcare is denied or any of the myriad other reasons that make medical bills the overwhelming number one reason that Americans go bankrupt.

The government is going to keep on giving more and more parts of the system over to the private sector who will massively reduce coverage and treatments and take huge profits out of the system. Then eventually the government will say that despite all the privatisation of the system, costs have spiralled out of control and the only possible option is to now privatise the whole thing.

And whichever government gets elected, conservative or labour, the same privatisation thing happens. Here's an example of what happened the last time a Labour government was in power:

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...s-2012-m25-pfi