It might be helpful if some of our British colleagues could provide the American press with a more nuanced view of what is going on in Britain than this:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/socialized-medicine-update-britain-cancels-50000-surgeries-as-nhs-hospitals-face-winter-crisis/article/2644827
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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