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Save our NHS 17:06 - Jul 5 with 3362 views

I can't imagine there is a single one of us who doesn't have a heart warming story about what the NHS has done for them or a loved one.

The idea that private healthcare companies can be making a profit from our looking after the sick and vulnerable can't be right.

"Contracting leeches money and scarce resources from the system. It fragments and disrupts continuity of care and undermines training and staffing. And it is expensive. Although the Westminster government does not collect data on the contracts or the cost of market contracting, we know from the US that it accounts for around 30% of healthcare expenditure, compared to 5% in the non-marketised NHS prior to 1990."

That means the cost of contracting alone would see us losing over £25 billion a year that would otherwise have been spent on actual care.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/debt-spiral-destroy-nhs-he

I would suggest taking advantage of the political atmosphere that is creating MP's that need to be listening to their constituents (or at least being seen to) and get in touch with yours to ask they attend the reading of the bill and support it.

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