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Report: Rising Health Care Expenditures Risk Turning UK Into 'National Health State'
Above: The logo of the National Health Service is seen on the exterior of St Thomas' Hospital in London. Image copyright: Leon Neal/Getty Images
The Spin
Left narrative
The NHS is an institution that has suffered mightily from underinvestment in the past, but it is clear that money alone cannot fix what ails the organization. The NHS is in clear need of reform, and a shift toward public and preventive health, efficiencies, and institutional shake-ups mean that the most dire predictions for Britain's universal health care system likely won't come to pass, provided the nation is serious about really fixing it.
Right narrative
The NHS has turned from a health service to a religious institution, and there is little rational, adult debate about what needs to be done to fix health care. Investment has done little to fix the chronic issues facing the NHS, and it is simply mathematically unsustainable to have this free, non-means tested system. The U.K. needs a new, mixed system that includes the market and personal responsibility, up to and including scrapping the NHS entirely.