CAN anyone tell me why the NHS Bill is still going ahead?

David Cameron said he would carry out no top-down reorganisation of the NHS, and yet this is just that. Implementing it will cost billions at a time when the Government is supposed to be saving money.

Very few want it – certainly not health professionals such as GPs, consultants, nurses and the supplementary professions and their professional bodies.

Even members of the coalition Government want it thrown out – especially Liberal Democrats.

It will have a destabilising effect on the NHS. It is already doing so.

Contrary to some perceptions the efforts to increase cost efficiency have been going on for years.

The only additional change this Bill will produce is to enable the greater involvement of profit-making organisations in the NHS, and over the years the slow slide to a US insurance and profit-based system.

Most people want a health service free at the point of care, with their taxes spent on treatment, not on company profits.

Nye Bevan at the foundation of the NHS said: “The NHS will last as long as there are folks left with the faith to fight for it.”

Keith Gailer, Bewlay Street, York.

• I HAVE no loyalty to Tories or Labour and voted for both over the years. No choice! They both represent minority interests, nowhere near big enough to divide total power between them over the lives of the nation.

There is not enough strong opposition to Cameron and Osborne on the NHS.

They will not back down unless they are forced on their number one trophy for their backers, under the banners of competition and private funding.

There is no place for these in the NHS, except amongst suppliers to give the best value for money.

The damage they are doing, and will do, will take a lot of putting right. A revolution, unless we have radical changes to the political system they grow fat on.

That may bring stability back.

George Appleby, Clifton, York.