British NHS: Family docs, community clinic, provider choice

Aren’t all those things just what we want in a real American healthcare system, while paying less? Yet, nutbars still demonize plans to reform the system.

The pull quote by Ara Darzi, a former minister of health and a practicing NHS surgeon, now chair of surgery at Imperial College in London and Britain's ambassador for health and life sciences, and Tom Kibasi, an honorary lecturer at Imperial College, is near the end.

Fear is the weapon of choice for opponents of reform who have no substantive alternative to offer.

Exactly; yet, President Kumbaya doesn’t get that. Or, he’s already that far down the sellout road. (See “Daschle, Tom.”)