Not just rationing, but they are actually talking about opening it up to free markets and the evil profit-loving health care providers; of course, not totally, but they are stepping in the right direction.They're going to have to, eventually, so they might as well start taking the baby steps now. The NHS is falling apart, and is not too far from the point where people are going to be reguarly dying on the doorsteps of hospitals. My guess is that they're only one mildly-bad flu season from having true riots in the streets over this.
It's a bureaucracy completely out of control, and is beyond saving. It can only be crushed.
Quite right. Have you been reading the stories about letting British patients go to private providers on the continent, such as Greece, Germany and France? There was also the study comparing the NHS to a non-profit in California; the NHS didn't fare too well.