Stumbling Toward a Market for Health Care in the U.K.

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Many economists view the health-care bill passed in the U.S. earlier this year as falling somewhere between “a complete waste of time” and “actually making the situation worse.”
Will the Conservative Party do better with health-care reform in the U.K.? Delia Lloyd is cautiously optimistic that the proposed baby steps towards more market-based health care will improve the British system.
Even if the British health care reform fails, there seems to be a lot to like in the policies that David Cameron is pursuing.