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19 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Why on earth are so many Tory MPs keen to explore health insurance when we already have the #NHS?

Oh.
Remember back in 2014, when @unitetheunion released a list of 70 MPs with proven links to private healthcare providers, & ALL OF THEM voted in favour of the Health & Social Care Act, a bill that went a long way towards privatising swathes of the #NHS?

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/s…
Some of the current & former MPs with proven links to healthcare providers:

Sajid Javid
Priti Patel
Kwarsi Kwateng
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Amber Rudd
Nadhim Zahawi
Oliver Letwin
IDS
David Cameron
David Davis
Michael Fallon
Liam Fox
Jeremy Hunt
Penny Mordaunt
John Redwood
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That so many senior Tory MPs have already profited from Healthcare investors isn't a secret, & Secretary of State for Health & Social Care Sajid Javid is one of the most gung-ho free-market fundamentalists in Parliament - why do you think he got the job?

thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/reveal…
John Major: if Boris Johnson, Michael Gove & IDS rise to power post-Brexit “the #NHS is as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python”: Gove wants to privatise it, Johnson wants to charge for health services & IDS wants social insurance.

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