Video: Nick Clegg: NHS bill is for 'patients not profits' During his keynote conference speech the Deputy Prime Minister conceded that the shake-up to the NHS was "controversial" and "difficult" but had "proven the value of coalition." "The health Bill was stopped in its tracks and rewritten because this is a coalition government," he said. Competition will be the servant of health care not the master, because this is a coalition government. Mr Clegg went on to say that although the Bill was not a Liberal Democrat Bill it had been improved "because of the Liberal Democrats."