Ok so you haven't read about the health bill in any detail... Neither have I. You accept that the argument that just because health care professionals are against it doesn't necessarily make it bad... Probably true...
But the NHS reforms are massive and complicated. Andrew Lanseley struggled to explain them to colleagues himself. Doctors were against starting the NHS but were bought off ("I stuffed their mouths with gold..."). Other reforms achieved in the face of dissent were far smaller.
Imagine all the confusion that you go through when you try to deal with bureaucracy sometimes, an expenses claim at work or perhaps returning a computer.
When nobody knows what's going on you get passed between people who are unsure how to deal with you. We're humans when we change things everyone gets confused, things don't work so well. Now try changing things when nobody involved wants to, none of the users really understand and whilst simultaneously trying to make £20 billion worth of efficiency savings. Multiply the size of the organisation up to the NHS and then see what happens.
The cost of the reforms have been growing before this bill has even gone through (currently over £3 billion) they will get higher still when they try to implement them.
Even if the reforms are useful ones (and I am not in the least convinced of that) doing this now is reckless and arrogant. That is why I signed the petition. That is why I would like it if you would too.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22670
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