To ask you to sign this - protecting the NHS from US trade deals

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Just that really. Today Donald Trump has said that the NHS must be on the table in all UK/US post brexit trade deals. His ambassador to Britian has said something similar as well. A few Tory leadership candidates are now making statements about how they would protect the NHS should they be PM. They are rattled and we need to rattle them further - make them see how much the NHS means to us.

I'm sure everybody has heard the horror stories of people losing their homes or going bankrupt if they get ill in the States, of how poor people can't afford basic care and how people are trapped in jobs they hate because they can't move without losing their insurance.

If that is not something you want for you or your children or your elderly relatives, please sign this petition - and let the government know that we will not stand for private healthcare with massive insurance premiums that many of us cannot afford.

Whether leaver or remainer - this is not what we were promised in 2016, but it is what we will get if we don't kick up a fuss.
hands off our NHS please sign and share

I dont think anyone believes that the NHS is perfect

But it could be a lot worse

The US also wants to break the worldwide purchasing power of the NHS and hence greatly increase prices & profits for US drugs

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/06/uk-has-much-fear-us-trade-agreement

American Ambassador Woody Johnson’s comment to <a class="break-all" href="http://go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/02/us-wants-access-to-nhs-in-post-brexit-deal-ambassador-to-uk-says" target="_blank">Andrew Marrr*r on Sunday that healthcare would need to be on the table in any future trade talks
only served to make agreeing a fully-fledged deal all the more difficult.
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The US’s objectives for its negotiation with the UK were published in <a class="break-all" href="http://go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Summary_of_U.S.-UK_Negotiating_Objectives.pdf" target="_blank">February
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US demands regarding reimbursement regimes for pharmaceuticals and medical devices give greater cause for thought.

The US has long taken issuee* with the fact that the NHS’s approach to drug procurement

• where it makes its own assessment as to the fair value of the drugs it buys - pulls down prices worldwide. ..... due to the NHS’s global significance and market power, the incentives for the US to push the UK harder are more pronounced.

I heard a quote from Trump on Radio 4 this morning saying he actually wasn’t interested in the NHS and just said it as an example of ‘everything’ could be part of a new trade deal.

Signed.

I would HATE to see a privatised/pay-per-pill system like the US has. NHS is the best thing that we've ever had - warts and all.

No thanks, I won’t be signing. We don’t even know what will be proposed - it hasn’t even been discussed yet.

What’s the harm in discussing the issue? The NHS can’t continue to exist in its current form. It wasn’t designed to deliver everything we now expect from it. And the privatisation began a long time ago.

Thanks op. I've signed and shared

So you've dredged up a 7 year old video from a fringe politician to claim that an end to the NHS is imminent.

Ah yes. This 'fringe politician* and his so-called party now has 26% of the voting intentions in Westminster. Bye bye NHS.