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Liable to suffer. (the Malpractice Economist).(Editorial)
As a Briton, I am used to health service in crisis. Britain now spends only 6 percent of its gross domestic product on health care; America spends 13 percent. British hospital wards are forced to close regularly, doctors work such long hours they, are often unable to think straight, and long-term care for chronic illnesses is of a pitiably low standard. All these are clearly marks of a health care system in crisis, and quite obviously the fault of a system of socialized medical care that demands, in the name of fairness, that only the state may pay for medical care. Americans who visit Britain and have to deal with the National Health Service are glad that the same system ...
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