SoEmbarrassed - a bit unfair to ask why it has taken so long for "everyone" to do anything about the Bill... I would say why oh why did it take the medical profession so long to turn against it? Most people rely on workers in the NHS to have the clearest idea as to whether amendments are a good idea or not, so if the NHS appears to be rolling over and accepting it, then the general public will, too, because they will assume this must mean it is not quite such bad news for the NHS as it initially sounds, or is already inevitable. I have been against the whole idea from the beginning, but I seem to remember quite a few exceptionally vociferous GPs at the beginning of the process singing its praises and implying that any GP who was against it was only against it because they weren't any good at standing up for their patients and wanted an easy life. And I don't remember huge numbers of GPs coming out publicly with an opposing view to that one until the recent past, thus giving the impression there was no strong overall view, one way or the other, nor do I remember hearing strong or strident views from other NHS employees in the press, the result being that the Government thought it could steam roller the whole lot through before it had even passed anything into legislation. We can now enjoy a future where health care companies make a big profit out of the sitting duck of a UK taxpayer and take all their profits back to the US, totally unaccountable to the UK taxpayer. The result being: lots more people enjoying huge salaries and bonuses for making the whole UK population into a guinea pig for their experiments. Because the NHS is a hugely lucrative source of information to be mined by private institutions more interested in profit than patient care, when a choice has to be made between the two.