England's Failing Health Care System

Can Gordon Brown Improve England's Failing Socialist Health Care System? Sunday, September 02, 2007 The Economist reports on socialism: FOR a chancellor of the exchequer turned prime minister, the irony must be galling. The National Health Service has dominated voters' concerns during the decade that Labour has been in power. Responding to these worries when he was at the Treasury, Gordon Brown sanctioned budget-busting increases in spending on health. Yet as the public became increasingly disenchanted with the government's handling of the NHS and more pessimistic about its prospects, Labour squandered its huge historic lead as the party most trusted to run the health service. FULL ARTICLE...