[Anarchafeminists] VOTE for the NHS on May 22nd, VOTE National Health Action Party

[Gail Chester]

Dear all,
I am forwarding this message from a friend of mine who is a GP in Hackney and very active in Keep Our NHS Public. Before I got this email from her I was worrying about the fact that none of the bumph about the elections that I got from any party, including the Labour Party, included any commitment on the NHS. So I want to heartily endorse the point of this letter and say to you:
"I am asking you to change your usual voting pattern for these European Parliament elections.  We need 200,000 National Health Action Party votes to get an MEP elected. The NHS is teetering on the brink of implosion - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will seal its fate. Please vote for the NHS on May 22nd, and ask your friends, colleagues and family to do the same."
Best wishes, Gail
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Dear NHS Supporter,

WHAT do the European elections have to do with the NHS?

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership being negotiated between the US and the EU will tie the NHS into competition law. Wealthy global corporations will be able to sue the NHS/ UK government for loss of profits. This means NHS planners will not be free to determine what is best for patients, only how to avoid being sued. Care as a market strategy.

Philip Morris, makers of Marlborough cigarettes and the world's biggest manufacturer of cigarettes, is suing the Australian government over loss of profits because of the introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes. Profit is more important than the health of a nation.

Clinical Commissioning Groups already tender out services for fear of being sued by UK private health care companies.  This happened in Hackney in 2013 with the out of hours service, causing waste of NHS money and local GP time on an unnecessary tendering process.  Hackney people and GPs had already said they wanted a local GP-run service.  So much for the promise of local decision making for doctors and patients in the Health & Social Care Act.

WHY vote for the National Health Action Party?   The National Health Action Party was started by doctors and health workers in 2012 to restore a publicly funded, publicly provided NHS free at the point of delivery, based on need and not ability to pay.  We need to elect MEPs who will fight to keep the NHS exempt from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.  National Health Action Party MEPs will fight for the NHS. It is time the public was made aware of the coalition government's plans and we had a full, honest debate on the future of health care in England.

I am asking you to change your usual voting pattern for these MEP elections.  We need 200,000 National Health Action Party votes to get a MEP elected.

The NHS is teetering on the brink of implosion- the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will seal its fate

Please vote for the NHS on May 22nd, and ask your friends, colleagues and family to do the same.

Best Wishes, Coral Jones
http://nhap.org/european-elections-may-22nd/
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