
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: