Friday, July 09, 2010
Amazing Brits 2
PM Cameron is turning things around yet again, showing that actual change is possible in a parliamentary system.
For many decades the problem with Britain's national health system was too much bureaucratic control, not enough room for doctors and patients to decide.
This is a problem of competence, not an automatic result of government control as conservative commentators would have you believe. (In other words, the important variable is How, not Who.) Some purely governmental health systems work very well, and America's pre-Obama system works very badly with a mix of insurance and government bureaucrats.
How do you fix it? Obama's "reform" makes it worse, putting even more control and money into the hands of insurance and government bureaucrats.
Cameron's brand-new plan finally makes it better!
For many decades the problem with Britain's national health system was too much bureaucratic control, not enough room for doctors and patients to decide.
This is a problem of competence, not an automatic result of government control as conservative commentators would have you believe. (In other words, the important variable is How, not Who.) Some purely governmental health systems work very well, and America's pre-Obama system works very badly with a mix of insurance and government bureaucrats.
How do you fix it? Obama's "reform" makes it worse, putting even more control and money into the hands of insurance and government bureaucrats.
Cameron's brand-new plan finally makes it better!
About £80billion will be distributed to family GPs in a move that will see strategic health authorities and primary care trusts scrapped.¶ 8:03 AM
The plan, contained in a white paper to be published next week, is designed to place key decisions about how patients are cared for in the hands of doctors who know them. Tens of thousands of administrative jobs in the health service will be lost as a result.
Responsibility will be handed to GPs working in local groups, who will commission services or provide them by working in rotas through co-ops.
