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I consider paying less, and getting more, to be the very essence of capitalist.... Now, paying more, and getting less, to satisfy an ideological itch to privatize -- that's dogmatic.

It's pragmatic, not dogmatic. There isn't a cheaper model, except by turning into Mexico. You're already getting better-than-OECD average outcomes with lower-than-average OECD expenditures. How are you going to make it cheaper still?

The OP's point is being missed -- the NHS is already going away, Cheshire-cat style. Single-payer insurance, and all services provided by private vendors, is not a national health service. In ten years, all you'll have left is the Nye Bevan statues, like the Cheshire cat's smile. You'll never...

Given the choice between a government that will attempt, however imperfectly, to make people's lives better, and one that will make someone else's life worse, but let you watch -- especially someone who doesn't live near you, look like you, or pray like you -- Britain has chosen the latter. We...