Thread by @MrMarkEThomas

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The Government’s Health & Care Bill is now in the House of Lords.

If we allow it to pass without amendment, the impact on us all will be grave. But it is not too late to de-fang the Bill.

Please write to your MP: we have made it easy for you (see last Tweet).

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The Bill would allow Ministers to migrate our healthcare system to something much more like the US, where you might find yourself having to pay:

Blood test: $100-$300
Giving birth: $9,000-17,000
Breast cancer $15,000-300,000
Etc, etc
99-percent.org/amending-the-h…

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The government denies all this. But not very plausibly as the article shows…
99-percent.org/government-res…

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Just as they deny any risk of privatisation…
99-percent.org/four-ways-to-p…

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Working with others like @GOV2UK , @nurses_united , @OpenBritainHQ , @DMinghella and @NHAparty, we are launching a major campaign to de-fang the Bill.

You can help here: nhs2.uk by making sure your MP supports the Lords’ amendments.

PS For those opposed to forcing through amendments on the grounds that they want to scrap the Bill -- be careful: the chances of scrapping it are vanishingly small -- by not supporting amendments, you are supporting the Tories.

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