PDA

View Full Version : Britain Decentralizes Its Healthcare Bureaucracy




DeadheadForPaul
07-25-2010, 09:00 AM
I guess this is a good first step towards eventually dismantling it all

At the very least, it's an admission that national healthcare cannot work - even one of the most prosperous nations in human history

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=3


LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.

Even as the new coalition government said it would make enormous cuts in the public sector, it initially promised to leave health care alone. But in one of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

FrankRep
07-25-2010, 09:35 AM
Obama’s Medicare appointee praised Britain’s National Health Service (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/obamas-medicare-appointee-praised-britains-national-health-service-93709109.html)

Washington Examiner
May 13, 2010


Why I love Britain's socialized healthcare system (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/08/22/nhs)

Salon.com
Aug 22, 2009