Red Tape Killing British Health Care

Here's what Hillary Clinton and Governor Blagojevich would like to bring to a hospital near you: Disaster. Clinton and pals love to cite the UK and Canadian health care systems as some kind of utopian solution. But is it? This report from the UK indicates that it is not. The National Health Service is groaning under the weight of inspection and regulation, with at least 56 bodies with a right to visit NHS hospitals and trusts, many without an invitation. There are so many bodies that the authors of a new report from the NHS Confederation say that they are not sure they have managed to count them all. Calling for a halt to overbearing bureaucrats, the confederation - which represents NHS managers in 90 per cent of trusts - says something must be done to reduce the burden. The rest of this article...