A letter to my MP about the proposed health and social care bill

I wrote to my MP today regarding the Health & Social Care Bill. I'm sure you've heard about it but do you understand what it means to you? Really??

If you think the objections are simply about fat pensions for greedy public sector workers then for goodness sakes, stop what you're doing and start reading about it. The care you and your family receive for free now could soon disappear.

Here's what I wrote -

Dear Mel Stride,

I am writing to you to express my concern over the proposed health and social care bill. The impact and implications of this dangerous bill are far reaching and quite frankly scary for the majority of the population. Unfortunately the majority of the population will not understand the details of the bill or even need to but the implications are not being explained in clear language and instead serious concerns by professionals in all parts of the NHS are waved away and sadly passed off as "greedy public sector workers worried about their pensions" in outrageous spin articles in the Mail, Sun, etc.

I know you are a member of the conservatives and are obliged to tie the party line and will be pressured by the whips but you will understand the problems this bill will cause to your constituents, particularly the elderly and vulnerable.

I am appealing you to question everything and acknowledge your constituents before it is too late.

Yours sincerely,

Rich Mills

** update - a first reply **

I received an email from Mike Knuckey
(Assistant to Mel Stride MP)

"Dear Mr Mills

Thank you very much for contacting Mel Stride MP on the important issue of the government's NHS reforms and your concerns about the clarity with which they had been explained to the public, the issue of spin and press reaction and that of the role of party whips in relation to the way that MPs vote. I know that Mel will be particularly interested in your email as the NHS an Institution that he feels particularly supportive of and he also has concerns about the way in which some commentators are positioning the government's drive to improve the NHS

We will deal with your email as soon as possible and Mel will be in touch."

There was a bit more about signing up for updates but not relevant to this.

So, Mel has concerns as to how some commentators are positioning the government's attempts to improve the NHS?

Nobody has an issue with improvements, in face NHS outcomes have improved significantly over the past few years and is still improving and making changes to cope with an expanding, elderly population as well as increasing problems such as obesity and it's related conditions.

I do hope that Mel and his colleagues aren't writing off concerns as left-wing noise.