By Douglas V. Gibbs
As the Democrats in America are pushing to centralize health care, and the liberals are crying far and wide for a "public option," it turns out that doing such in Britain has turned out to be a big fat mistake.
Who'd of thunk it?
That's right, the British Government politicians, acting in a much less insane manner, are launching what may be considered by some to be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.
The goal is to shift control of the centralized system to doctors at the local level (you know, that Free Market thing, and all). Under the plan the bloated health care bureaucracy would be slowly dismantled, and will relinquish control as the private system gains more control over health care. The hope is that it will save $30 billion, and by 2014 reduce the government's costs by 45 percent.
A lot of government jobs, says the press, will be lost - but imagine how many private sector jobs will be created!
Remember the old saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? In the case of the Democrats, what kind of malady is defined by watching something fail over and over and over again around the world, and then pursuing it while expecting a different result?
Mental instability?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care - New York Times
As the Democrats in America are pushing to centralize health care, and the liberals are crying far and wide for a "public option," it turns out that doing such in Britain has turned out to be a big fat mistake.
Who'd of thunk it?
That's right, the British Government politicians, acting in a much less insane manner, are launching what may be considered by some to be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.
The goal is to shift control of the centralized system to doctors at the local level (you know, that Free Market thing, and all). Under the plan the bloated health care bureaucracy would be slowly dismantled, and will relinquish control as the private system gains more control over health care. The hope is that it will save $30 billion, and by 2014 reduce the government's costs by 45 percent.
A lot of government jobs, says the press, will be lost - but imagine how many private sector jobs will be created!
Remember the old saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? In the case of the Democrats, what kind of malady is defined by watching something fail over and over and over again around the world, and then pursuing it while expecting a different result?
Mental instability?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care - New York Times
Reid to Netroots: "We're Going To Have a Public Option" - The American Spectator
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