It seems to me that an articulate opinion column in one of our major papers on the lessons this has for us as congress talks about "welfare reform" could be helpful tim
Timothy Jost540 421 1529Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE DroidGeorge Osborne, formerly Chancellor of Exchequer, was driven by the need to shrink the Welfare State // the size of the State .Purely ideological and clouded ‘by spin’ that was well designed and implemented. Social care has been cut by over 30% with Tory areas getting preferential treatment. NHS funding has grown but inadequately at a small annual real rate which is insufficient to meet demand increases sufficient to fund new technologies and ageing. NHS successes in keeping the likes me alive mean I survive to consume even more marginally effect/costly care (familiar?!) Gap between estimated growth funding and government cash allocations now circa 4 to 1.5%The Right now admit the existence of a funding gap and press for private insurance funding increases or ‘ear-marked taxation’May’s minions are more covert than Trump’s psychopaths in disguising ideologically motivated redistribution!Best wishes as ever from the asylum in your eastAlan
Sent from my iPhoneuhh... the NHS is being run by the same kind of people who are trying to destroy the U.S. health care system? This isn't aboutdesign, it's about right-wing governments.
Or am I wrong?
(stipulating that there has been all sorts of highly questionable "reform" in the NHS as well - partly from elite market/managementideology but partly also in order to say budget squeezes won't hurt because reorganization will increase efficiency)
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Jost, Timothy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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:
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Emeritus Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law
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