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Our NHS can't afford privatisation - why MPs must back the NHS Bill this Friday

Even middle England can see that privatisation costs, rather than saves, billions. Will MPs take a historic chance to undo this market mess that's crippling our NHS, this Friday?

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Image: Supporters of the NHS Bill (including Caroline Lucas and Corbyn as a backbencher) gather outside parliament last year

Privatisation is bad for our pockets as well as bad for our health. We can’t afford it.  MPs must back the NHS Bill (which should be heard in Parliament this Friday). That’s the message from an illustrious group of academics, experts and celebrities, in a letter to the Guardian last Saturday.

The experts turn the nostrums of market efficiency which the free-marketeers have inculcated us with over the last 30+ years, on their head, writing: