satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 10:10:55 AM

here is one on healthcare being a right

here is one on healthcare being a right

satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 10:13:18 AM

unpleasantaries

Not coincidentally, the U.K. is by far the most unpleasant country in which to be ill in the Western world. Even Greeks living in Britain return home for medical treatment if they are physically able to do so.

satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 10:15:54 AM

another observation from the same article

In any case, the universality of government health care in pursuance of the abstract right to it in Britain has not ensured equality. After 60 years of universal health care, free at the point of usage and funded by taxation, inequalities between the richest and poorest sections of the population have not been reduced. But Britain does have the dirtiest, most broken-down hospitals in Europe

satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 10:16:24 AM

More articles by Theodore Dalrymple

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satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 10:18:25 AM

Another article named: The British Disease

Another article named: The British Disease

satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 10:22:46 AM

expediency...

Perhaps this would not be so serious a matter if the British economy were not a so-called service economy. It has been such ever since Margaret Thatcher solved our chronic industrial relations problem by the simple expedient of getting rid of industry

satya - Monday, September 28, 2009 2:06:30 PM

Another long list of his writings at New English Journal

Another long list of his writings at New English Journal