[P.O.E.]

provoke public disquiet

Understatement of the year.

[preacher]

Later

[Right Wing Assault]

Maybe they can merge their health system with Venezuela's.

[trisham]

It was just a matter of time.

[MileHi]

...through no fault of its own,”

No, of course not.

[oldvirginian]

Seems to me that socialised medicine, or anything else, lurches from one crisis to the next.

Bureaucracies are inefficient and not flexible enough to match the rapidly changing world.
Five year plans are only deigned to take care of last years problems.

[jennychase]

My cousin’s husband is waiting for surgery in Berkshire, but Operation Room are unavailable because of instruments are out of order.

[RegulatorCountry]

I bet they’re not understaffed with office bureaucrats, it’s just the public-facing “doers” that get cut, they want public outcry to increase funding. It’s that way with every large bureaucracy facing a funding problem. Make the public squeal to get more money, never cut administrative overhead.

[NJRighty]

Nothing that a nice big tax increase won’t solve./s

[BlueStateRightist]

Don’t worry U.K., we’ll give you some company in a decade or so.

[jim_trent]

They are already rationing care. No medicine for fat people or smokers. Who are they going to extend it to?

[Hildy]

So are our rural hospitals. Just as we knew would ahppen

[tanuki]

Maybe restricting health care costs to actual Brits-and foreigners who can pay-might help bring those debts down.

[Rashputin]

Oh, come on. They’re killing patients as fast as they can it’s just tough to get ahead of the curve.

[Fungi]

Translation: they have run out of other people’s money and they need more.

[Organic Panic]

Just import a few more million sick uneducated aFricans. I hear that’s the number one way to boost economies.

[RetiredTexasVet]

His Arrogance will be leaving office soon, maybe he could go over there and show them how to successfully operate the NHS version of CommieCare!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Let them collapse.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“The logical areas to examine would be more draconian rationing of access to care, formally relaxing performance targets, shutting services, extending and increasing charges, cutting the priorities the NHS is trying to deliver or, more explicitly, controlling the size of the NHS workforce.”

Notice the ONE thing he didn’t mention was to outsource the inefficient parts of the NHS to private health care. Because these central planners see this as anathema.

[randita]

Just this week, Obama and Democrats in Congress are proposing a single payer option to be added the the exchanges because so many insurers are exiting them.