Will your next MP be committed to defending our NHS?
With less than a week to go, and the polls tightening, it's more important than ever to find out which election candidates are on the side of the NHS. We want the new Parliament to be full of MPs who are willing to stand up for our NHS against Trump's trade deal.
The US wants to 'lock in current market access' for public services. For the NHS, that's not just the 18% of budget that currently goes to private companies - that's the whole of the NHS. Thanks to the Health and Social Care Act 2012, all NHS services have to go out to tender, so that private companies can compete with public NHS bodies to provide the service.
So if we sign a trade deal on the terms that the US want to set, we'd be locking in the privatisation of the HSCA - and making it impossible for us to restore the NHS to a fully public, national health service.
And it's not obvious that the UK would be able to refuse these terms, even if we wanted to. We're in a weak negotiating position because of our desperate need for trade after leaving the EU.
So don't believe Boris Johnson when he says the NHS is not for sale. He couldn't resist the prospect of US trade, even if he did want to save the NHS. And we know he doesn't.
In this election, candidates can choose to stand up for our NHS, or bow down to Donald Trump. Which side are your candidates on? If they haven't signed this pledge, they're not on the side of the NHS:
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