Good op-ed on NHS and US hlth cr debate

In Defense of Britain's Health System

By Ara Darzi and Tom Kibasi

Monday, August 17, 2009

LONDON -- When Britain's National Health Service (NHS) was created in 1948, its founder, the charismatic politician Aneurin Bevan, observed that it was "in place of fear." More than 60 years later, it is fear that dominates the discussion of the NHS in the U.S. debate about health-care reform.