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.
Centene is bigger than Pepsi and Disney and almost as big as Boeing.
It has grown by becoming a big supplier in the marketplace of the US’s primitive public healthcare systems, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).