I’m not a fan of the government-distorted health system in the United States.
Various laws and programs from Washington have created a massive problem with third-party payer, which makes America’s system very expensive and inefficient.
But it’s possible to have a system that is even worse. Americans can look across the ocean at the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.
Our British friends are burdened with something akin to “Medicare for All.”
But it’s even worse because doctors and nurses are directly employed by government, which means they have been turned into government bureaucrats.
And government bureaucrats generally don’t have a track record of good performance. That seems to apply to health bureaucrats, as captured by this Alys Denby column for CapX.
Numbers are no way to express a human tragedy, but those in the Ockenden Report into maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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