{"id":4813,"date":"2009-09-03T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:13:17","slug":"a-national-health-service-costly-yes-and-powerful-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2009\/09\/03\/a-national-health-service-costly-yes-and-powerful-too\/","title":{"rendered":"A National Health Service: Costly, Yes, and Powerful, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Jacobson over at the Legal Insurrection blog<\/a> has a good post up on the cost of the British National Health Service, based on a recent article from the London Times.<\/p>\n

Something the good professor does not address, at least in that post, are the political repercussions of creating such a large government workforce. By the time a public health system has 1.5 million employees, as Britain’s NHS does, the politicians become afraid to enact reforms that affect even some of these workers adversely — even desperately-needed reforms with plenty of support from the general public.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has five times the population of the United Kingdom. Had we made the same decision Britain made 50 years ago and created a National Health Service of our own, all other things equal, it would have 7,500,000 employees today.<\/p>\n

Anyone imagine that, had we done so, that either the Republicans or the Democrats would be willing to speak truth to a power block that large?<\/p>\n

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