looks like the good old tory ideological distrust of socialist health care (i.e. the NHS) is on plain view.

They dress it as competition and patient opportunity when it is perhaps better described as privatisation and decentralisation of responsibility from government. Why remove the Secretary of State's "duty to provide" in clause 1 if it is as unimportant as they insist.

All this done under the radar as we are made to focus on the Eurozone, (which we aren't even in), Libya (what that was all about and why we had to get involved, heaven only knows), and the global credit crisis, (thank you banking industry and the U.S. subprime mortgage sector).

Very sneaky media manipulation, or am I giving them too much credit.

Thanks for raising this Lindy.

Neil.