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Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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Why would they do this?
Thiel wants that data, he wants data for the whole world
This time it isn't even Thiel, the company was originally the UK subsidiary of the technology arm of UHC (the large US health conglomerate whose insurance arm's CEO got shot by someone who is not Luigi Mangione because I was having a beer with him that night).
It now got bought by some private equity company that does healthtech among other things. It being a private equity company, its goal is to enshittify and IPO or sell on. Meaning the service WILL suffer and there's a nonzero chance they'll sell access to patient data to other companies quietly.
Thiel doesn't have much need for this one because he already has his grubby hands in the UK's health records via the Palantir NHS deal.
I forgot about the NHS thing. All of it is just awful, the British people deserve better.
They will most likely also use the data to see how best they can milk the world with health insurances by doing some frequency vs cost analysis and making the insurance for more frequently needed health services more expensive.
A whole shit load of money
A tonne of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn.
The sack'o'porn was the tipping point.