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To quote my earlier answer, to: Is it true that the British Conservative party wants to sell off the National Health Service?There isn't much to sell off, as:most GP, Chemists, Opticians and Dentist practices were never nationalised, and are still run as private business / partnerships. They just invoice and receive payment, from a Government nominated agency, for a proportion of their work, along with free pension contributions.The NHS regional procurement hubs have largely outsourced their IT and operations, to multi nationals, eg. NHS names suppliers for £1.25bn IT frameworkThe drug, medical equipment, uniform supplying​ entities were never nationalised eg. Suppliers | NHS Supply ChainThe majority of hospitals built in the last 25 years are PFI funded, with the hospital built and owned by a private entity, but leased to the NHS for n years, eg. The PFI hospitals costing NHS £2bn every yearThe majority of the Nursing accommodation stock has already been sold off, or the provision transfered to private property management companies eg. NHS Accommodation in London & South EastA number of entirely Privately built and Run hospitals are already contracted, in the UK, and elsewhere to provide non emergency services, eg. Privatisation of NHS continues as hospital contract awarded to Richard Branson or Landmark deal for private firm to run social work service approvedNumerous ambulance stations have been sold off, along with the maintenance facilities.Private Ambulance providers are contracted to provide non and some emergency services, eg.NHS spending on private ambulances soars to meet demandA number of Air ambulance / coast guard services have been contacted out, eg. Air ambulances in the United Kingdom - WikipediaCleaning, Catering, Security, Parking services are typically contracted out, in NHS run operations.Out of hours and Locum services are often contracted out to private operations eg. NHS doctors banned from charging 'rip-off' locum rates for extra shiftsAround 15% of the medical staff in NHS badged Hospitals are supplied by private agencies.The Department of Health Offices in Westminster are more than likely leased from the Duke of Westminster.So a complete sell off isn't worth the time and effort, given BREXIT will likely fully occupy Westminster for five or so years.

There isn't much to sell off, as:most GP, Chemists, Opticians and Dentist practices were never nationalised, and are still run as private business / partnerships. They just invoice and receive payment, from a nominated Government agency, for a proportion of their work, along with free pension contributions.The NHS regional procurement hubs have largely outsourced their IT and operations, to multi nationals, eg. NHS names suppliers for £1.25bn IT frameworkThe drug, medical equipment, uniform supplying​ entities were never nationalised eg. Suppliers | NHS Supply ChainThe majority of hospitals built in the last 25 years are PFI funded, with the hospital built and owned by a private entity, but leased to the NHS for n years, eg. The PFI hospitals costing NHS £2bn every yearThe majority of the Nursing accommodation stock has already been sold off, or the provision transfered to private property management companies eg. NHS Accommodation in London & South EastA number of entirely Privately built and Run hospitals are already contracted, in the UK, and elsewhere to provide non emergency services, eg. Privatisation of NHS continues as hospital contract awarded to Richard Branson or Landmark deal for private firm to run social work service approvedNumerous ambulance stations have been sold off, along with the maintenance facilities.Private Ambulance providers are contracted to provide non and some emergency services, eg.NHS spending on private ambulances soars to meet demandA number of Air ambulance / coast guard services have been contacted out, eg. Air ambulances in the United Kingdom - WikipediaCleaning, Catering, Security, Parking services are typically contracted out, in NHS run operations.Out of hours and Locum services are often contracted out to private operations eg. NHS doctors banned from charging 'rip-off' locum rates for extra shiftsAround 15% of the medical staff in NHS badged Hospitals are supplied by private agencies.The Department of Health Offices in Westminster are more than likely leased from the Duke of Westminster.So a complete sell off isn't worth the time and effort, given BREXIT will likely fully occupy Westminster for five or so years.

ComplacencyCompetitionConservatismCockamamie Business DecisionsCupertino.OK. You are asking about the decline of the Japanese consumer electronics industry along with the decline of its mass-production semiconductor industry.So in line with the five “C” s I have mentioned above, let me start with complacency. With the exception of Fujitsu and NEC, most of the names you mention were mainly consumer electronics players, with Sony and Panasonic (formerly known as Matsushita) as the chief rivals at the top of the pecking order.They had gotten rich by perfecting the mass production and global distribution of TV sets at a time when US companies like RCA were their main rivals in the only market that really mattered at the time, the US.Sony and Panasonic then developed the VHS and Beta video-tape recording formats and sold zillions of them to go with all the TV sets they had also sold. American appliance stores were eager to get all their latest models with all the fancy bells and whistles. That VHS ultimately won over Sony’s Beta is less important than the fact competition was heating up, but complacency made these companies focus on what had worked in the past.Sony also fumbled the computer disk storage battle, despite having replaced the clumsy 5″ floppy disk with the nifty hard-case 3.5″ version.Along with video-recorders, Sony and Panasonic also got a jump start on handheld video cameras (as both had world-class studio-grade professional equipment lines).Competition as we all know came from a smaller country called Korea that had an incredibly intensely driven company called Samsung (which means 3 Stars), a company that would increasingly take market share from the leading Japanese (as well as its chipmakers) by perfecting high-yield mass-production skills based on Japanese predecessors.Samsung was so good it turned out to be the only credible competitor to Apple in the handset and now smartphone business. One by one all those Japanese companies had to get out of phones, or downsize or merge (Sony-Eriksson comes to mind) but with its powerful and dedicated made-in-Korea strategy Samsung stayed in the ring to duke it out with Apple.Conservatism is a creed in almost EVERY Japanese boardroom, it is just harder to innovate when you have a golden past lined with former glory - and those “winning-team” senior managers still in place at the top, despite their missing out on new tech and market trends. Sometimes befuddled managers had to resort to money-games and clever financing tricks that in the case of camera-maker Olympus came back to haunt them (though Olympus has a great endoscope medical optics business as well.)Cockamamie decisions are well illustrated by the insistence by all the main flat-screen display (ie. those big LED TVs we all have now) makers to build vast factories inside of Japan leading up to 2011 when the government had decreed that all conventional (cathode-ray, non-digital) broadcasts would end in July, forcing EVERY household to buy 1 or several new flat-screen TVs for their homes. I bought one 42″ for my son and a 56″ for home - and we still use them.But when the deadline came EVERYONE had bought new TVs and would be unlikely to buy new ones for several years into the future, yet Sharp (in particular) doubled down on its bets at its Kansai-area “Kameyama” plants, bragging of having 100% Made-in-Japan products. But oops, there was no more demand for TVs and made-on-the-moon would have been as empty a promise.Where does Cupertino come in?That is the Silicon Valley hot-spot where Apple was born and now thrives, created by Woz and Jobs, two great California entrepreneurial pioneers.Steve Jobs got kicked out of his company for a time, and during that time got to know Hollywood and the SoCal music industry, so when he returned he was a different man altogether, savvy to music, contracts, distribution etc, as well as savvy to the Hollywood studio circuit having ridden the Toy Story series to massive success.But by his re-tooling of the iPod (invented by Sony as the Walkman), then iTunes, then the iPhone, Steve destroyed many other business models, including that of Sony, Nokia, even Nintendo. Who wanted to have a Sony CD earphone music player (or MP4) when you could download songs one at a time for $0.99 without going to the record store?Then came the iPhone and huge damage to the Sony digital camera (invented by Sony as the Mavica) business. Who wants to have a Sony point-and-shoot camera when you could take the same or better pictures with the iPhone. (OK, so Sony bought the Konica-Minolta camera business and has an OK high-end prosumer business competing with the Big Boys (Canon/Nikon) as well as Fuji Film, Olympus and Ricoh-Pentax. As with car makers, Japan has too many by 50%.That pretty much sums up this self-engineered financial tragedy. Sony has morphed into making movies, and making the best digital imaging systems around, sold to Samsung and Apple. Panasonic makes batteries for Tesla.Peter Fuchs © 2018Photos: Sony founder Akio Morita with his new Mavica and WalkMan (below). I met Morita a couple of times, in Tokyo and in Boston. A visionary, but not as lucky as Jobs to get fired and cast into the wilderness, and THEN come back all the wiser and more succesful. Morita and Jobs both owned Hollywood Studios, Sony Pictures and Pixar. Which was the more successful? The latter I think, as Steve sold it to Disney for more than $6bn to focus on the Apple miracle, part 2.0