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Admired her for many things, but her unending support for the British Public Health system leaves me feeling that she was too much of a socialist for my taste.

[Vanders9]

No British politician can do anything but support the NHS. That is the main evil of it. 1.4 million people are directly employed by the system. That's a huge electoral block, all of whom have a vested interest in maintaining it. Any attempt to remove, overhaul or even reform the system is met with ferocious resistance, not least because an ignorant public supports it totally. It is politically impossible to do anything else but support it, at least publically.

Thatcher hardly gave "unending support" anyway. She did introduce private medical care while she was in office (she herself was a member of such a system) and she did do away with some of the worst excesses of the Public Health system, but anything further will have to be left to her successors.