Editor's blog Thursday 23 June 2011: Health Bill amendments seek to piss down our backs and then tell us it's raining

The government's Health And Social Care Bill will be recommitted to the Commons on Tuesday, and they have just given various stakeholders their list of amendments.

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Health Policy Insight is inviting  all readers to email your comments and observations on these proposed amendments to editorial AT healthpolicyinsight.com, and we will publish a selection over the coming days.

Happy reading, people.

My first glance view would be that it's a Bill rewritten by people who've never stood on football terraces, and are unaware of the classic terrace maxim, "don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining".

Very little has been changed.