article_snippet: Ed Miliband announced a Labour government would act to ensure health services are no longer 'threatened' by privatisation .
article_snippet: Ed Miliband announced a Labour government would act to ensure health services are no longer 'threatened' by privatisation.
article_snippet: But Ed Miliband was forced to defend Ed Miliband against claims that Ed Miliband was scaremongering by referring to 'privatisation' when no patients are expected to pay for no patients treatment up front.
article_snippet: Under Labour's plans, a new profit cap - usually 5 per cent - would be set on outsourced healthcare contracts worth over £500,000, private companies would be blocked from 'cherry-picking' lucrative treatments and the NHS would become the 'preferred provider' for all services.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband said of a new profit cap - usually 5 per cent -: 'We do think it's right to say, when private sector companies are involved, we don't get excess profits which is draining money away from the National Health Service. '
article_snippet: On people paying for private healthcare, Ed Miliband added: 'What is the real lesson of the past on this - the lesson before 1997 and a lesson I fear for the future if David Cameron were to get back in? '
article_snippet: Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: ‘If you bankrupt the economy like Labour did last time
article_snippet: We can only have a strong NHS if We have a strong economy, but Ed Miliband doesn’t have an economic plan.
article_snippet: We all know Labour want to Labourweaponise’ the NHS
article_snippet: but this is another policy from Ed Miliband that looks ill-thought through.
article_snippet: This incompetence is exactly why Ed Miliband is simply not up to the job.
highlights_snippet: Puts the NHS at heart of Labour leader bid for power with new cap on profits .
  
highlights_snippet: But Labour leader is forced to defence claims Labour leader is scaremongering on privatisation .