Liberal Democrats grassroots member: Health bill is based on private sector involvement for NHS

Jeremy Sanders, Huddersfield Liberal Democrats, writes to John Pugh, the Lib Dem backbench health committee chairman, in an email obtained by the Guardian newspaper:

"We can try to get improvements to the details, but none of these changes are going to alter the basic fact that the legislation is based on the assumption that what the NHS needs is a system based on private sector involvement, free market competition and internal markets.

"Quite honestly, if our MPs are willing to go along with this, what exactly won't they be willing to support?"