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Friday, August 21, 2009

British Health Service Gets Barbs from Brits


“People here [in the UK] complain endlessly about the National Health Service, which is financed by taxpayers and provides access to care, free at the point of delivery, to everyone in the country. They deplore the system’s waiting lists, its regional disparities in treatment, its infection-breeding hospitals and its top-heavy bureaucracy.” (New York Times, Friday)

For many Britons, it’s all they know.

FEE Timely Classic
“The British Nationalized Health Service” by George Winder


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.