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  Privatisation agenda drives Tory policy on NHS, says Andy Burnham
  
  Shadow Health Secretary says that Coalition changes to legislation are enabling hospitals to make far more income from private health care, and it will soon be too late to go back
  
  Jeremy Hunt has been on a "mission to run down the National Health Service" to serve "a privatisation agenda" that will lead to the end of free, universal health care in the UK, the shadow Health Secretary has said in an explosive attack on the Coalition's record on the NHS.
  
  In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Andy Burnham accused the Coalition of crippling the NHS with competition law and setting it on a path towards charging patients for their care.
  
  The Labour frontbencher said that he had "huge reservations" about links between the Conservative party and private health-care companies - arguing that the NHS would be prey to giant American corportations picking off key services for profit if a landmark European Union free trade agreement is reached with the US.
  
  Mr Burnham also condemned the Government for destroying the morale of NHS staff with public criticisms and labelled the health reforms, which were not in either of the Coalition party's manifestos, "a democratic crime of monumental proportions".

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