But my opponent has taken a written pledge not to ask for that money, meaning those dollars would instead go to Texas or Alaska.

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Was the political significance here that Welsh Labour's manifesto written for May's Assembly election said that Labour had delivered on a pledge to "eliminate the use of private sector hospitals in NHS Wales and will continue to rule out the use of PFI in health services"?

BBC: Yeah but no but to using the private sector in the NHS?