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Go figure:

Britain remains “the sick man of Europe” because the NHS is overwhelmed by Government targets, a think-tank has claimed.

This is the reason that drugs and treatment are still being rationed despite huge increases in Health Service spending, Civitas found.

It said in a report that the growth of postcode lotteries and the “woefully inadequate” state of out-of-hours care are being aggravated by the centralised system....

This report is actually comparing Britain’s socialized medicine with other systems in Europe.  It found that although spending has doubled since the year 2000, many problems remain the same if not worse.

The article compares with the Dutch system which was decentralized and is now doing better.

I would say what we learn is that national health care plans create more problems then they solve but more freedom (such as allowing private payers) make it less bad.  If that’s the case the US wants to be very very careful about involving government into our health care.