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25 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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Do you know what it might cost you personally if the UK moves towards a US-style healthcare system?

Blood test: $100-$300
Giving birth: $9,000-17,000
Breast cancer $15,000-300,000
etc

99-percent.org/amending-the-h…
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The government claims we should not worry about the Bill.

But that is just not credible.
99-percent.org/government-res…
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They also deny even the possibility of privatisation.

But that is not true either

99-percent.org/four-ways-to-p…
(4/4)

So sign the petition today to #savetheNHS while we still have time.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5925…

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As John Major said:

“The concept that [the Cabinet] care for the NHS is odd: Gove wants to privatise it; Boris wants to charge people for using it; and Duncan Smith wants an insurance system. The NHS is as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python.”
And Javid believes:

"Government shouldn’t own all risks and responsibilities. We have to take responsibility for our health. We shouldn’t always go first to the state. Health and Social Care... should be family first, then community then the state.”

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So the idea of just keeping the NHS as a brand on top of something like the US system is now at the top of the agenda.
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