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Centene – the toxic firm that’s rapidly expanding into our NHS  
SOLOMON HUGHES warns over the megacorp that’s been repeatedly fined in the US for medical and financial failures and which is looking to expand into Britain’s health and social care
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED: Keep Our NHS Public campaigner and executive committee member Carol Ackroyd protests the Centene Corporation take over outside Trowbridge Surgery in Hackney [Keep Our NHS Public]

CENTENE, a US health corporation expanding throughout the NHS, has been repeatedly fined in its native United States for medical and financial failures.

Missouri-based Centene is enthusiastic about Britain, which it says is one of its two overseas locations. It is so keen it is buying key British companies and key British personnel.

Centene is very big in the United States — it is the 42nd-biggest firm in the US, according to the Fortune 500 list of US firms. 

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