The NHS: a national health sham
And we thought we had problems with the U.S. System
"Britain's National Health Service (NHS) as the public used to know it—a centrally managed, publicly owned, government-financed health system—is no more. The end of the NHS was confirmed last week by health secretary Patricia Hewitt, who pledged to continue with plans to introduce market-based contestability (the Government's byword for competition) into primary care, despite strong opposition from many health workers. Although Hewitt is promising limits to private-sector incursions into state care, the launch this week of new cooperatives of doctors to bring venture capital into the health service shows that something very important and dramatic is happening to British health care."