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Britain’s National Health Service Meltdown [1]
['The Editorial Board']
Date: 2023-02
The American left can’t seem to quit its desire for single-payer Medicare for All. So it’s worth noting that the United Kingdom, which already has a system resembling that socialist dream, is rethinking it amid another winter of healthcare misery.
The National Health Service’s winter crisis has become an annual tradition, but this year’s troubles for the free-at-point-of-service system are significantly worse. The NHS never recovered from the Covid pandemic. That means the normal winter wave of flu, Covid and other respiratory ailments is swamping hospitals and doctors’ offices already coping with a backlog of patients awaiting tests and treatments deferred by lockdowns.
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[1] Url:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/britains-healthcare-meltdown-national-health-service-single-payer-medicare-for-all-rishi-sunak-jeremy-hunt-11673648911
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