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Originally Posted by Kizzy
'Nigel Farage has suggested that the NHS might have to be replaced by a system of private health insurance within 10 years.
The Ukip leader was forced to back down and declare his party’s support for a state-funded health service last November after a film emerged of him backing a switch to an insurance system. After Labour claimed that Ukip would privatise the NHS, he admitted he had not carried his Ukip colleagues with him.'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-9988904.html
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So... the operative words are that he was forced to back down and declare his party's support for a state-funded health service.