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Cameron’s comitment to the NHS questioned after secret meeting

The Conservative Leader’s commitment to the NHS is being questioned after David Cameron held private talks with a group which calls the NHS a “dystopian, Soviet-style calamity” two weeks ago.

The Telegraph reports that: “Nurses For Reform, by its own admission, is the most extreme pressure group calling for NHS privatisation in Britain.

On its website it denounces the NHS as a ‘Soviet’ organisation which must be dismantled. “The idea that state can do it all, on its own – for everyone – is dead,” it says.

“Sixty years on from the inception of the NHS, British patients, voters and politicians are rightly moving away from the calamity of fully nationalised health care.”

The group’s comments about the NHS echo those of outspoken Conservative MEP Dan Hannan, who called the NHS “a sixty year mistake” and was promptly promoted to the Tory frontbench by Cameron, only to resign a few days later after the Tory Leader dropped his “cast-iron guarantee” to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

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