Reform is needed, but it's proving almost impossible to reform the bureaucratic NHS and drive the economy forward with the terrified Liberal Democrats pulling hard on the brakes.

Sack him then, for the whole saga stinks. We will lose free medical care in this country if we allow the Tories to continue with this raid. They've always apposed it from it's conception, Cameron says he wants the NHS, well we've heard his statements before and been fooled. They destroy the nhs at their peril, what do they think people will do, just stand by and suffer when they can't afford to pay for private insurance, they won't we'll have riots, just has we had in the 80s. Once its gone it's gone. What they should be doing is saving the 45 million per year from those who should pay and don't, why do they treat people when they've not paid, the payment should be before treatment not after. No money, no treatment except in emergencies. Cameron believes we will accept all he says, well we won't, and we won't forget either, memories stay. The Thatcher years remain with many, the pain, the jobless, the loss of homes, the division of families, the suicides of many from the Tories policies, I've not forgot. Is this the sort of society we want here, I don't think so. The NHS is a collective system that works, yes, it needs refining, but not on the scale they are doing which will destroy it.

Confiscate Lansley's wallet until after the bill is dumped

Has he spat the dummy out?
OK Sack him

The phrase " Be careful what you wish for " springs to mind.

Looks like the right of the Tory party may have found its next champion.

EASY !!! SACK HIM !!

Barbie, there's only free medical care in this country for people who pay no tax at all. Everyone else pays: so what's wrong with an insurance based system where the state guarantees payment of premiums for people on benefits?

Nigel Lawson once said that the NHS is the closest thing the British have to a state religion. If-hypothetically-the NHS was reformed to an insurance based system, like France's or Germany's or the Netherlands' health systems, where the private sector was allowed to have a significant presence and the standard of health care was similar or better than that provided by the NHS, would that be acceptable, Anton or Bryan?

There should be a national health service-that's a given. But it doesn't have to be the NHS.

Firstly, it's a Mail story. Can you trust the story's accuracy? He does not actually say back me or sack me, he says he doesn't want to do any other job which is not quite the same thing.

If he has said those fatal words, then I have no problem with him being sacked but who do you get in place, a Minister on the Tory right who will carry through the plan anyway?

Cameron could have referred the Bill back to committee stage and has chosen not to do so, that speaks volumes on Cameron's thoughts on the Bill currently before Parliament.

Personally, the Bill should be sacked which would mean Lansley would go anyway and you get to kill two birds with one stone.

Clegg? He'll do nothing. It's empty rhetoric. He had every opportunity to oppose this Bill before, he didn't have to sign off on it and his silence up until the last month on the NHS speaks volumes about his personal stance, he's now just appeasing the party faithful by appearing to wield some influence when in reality he has none left regarding this Bill.