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TOP Liberal Democrats launched a savage attack on our “second rate” NHS — and called for it to be SCRAPPED six years ago.
Key figures in the party, including Nick Clegg, wanted to replace the NHS with a health insurance scheme.
The Lib Dems’ most influential players, including Clegg, Treasury spokesman Vince Cable and Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, set out the plans in The Orange Book, published in 2004.
A chapter on the health service said: “The NHS remains an organisation beset by failure.”
The attack mirrors that made last year by Tory Euro MP Dan Hannan, who branded the NHS a “60-year mistake”.
He was denounced as unpatriotic — and even fellow Tories rebuked him.
Lib Dems now vow they will keep the NHS.
In the 2010 manifesto, they pledged to scrap Strategic Health Authorities and introduce “patient contracts” specifying what people can expect from the service.
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