The health of the NHS - The Sunday Times 4th November 2007

Minette Marrin calls Michael Moore’s film Sicko crude, manipulative and one-sided but her article last week was itself one-sided. We are fortunate to have universal and free health service cover, whereas President George W Bush has just vetoed the extension of the state children’s health insurance programme. This leaves 3.2m American children with no entitlement to healthcare unless their uninsured parents can scrape together or borrow to pay for medical treatment. Many criticisms can be levelled at the NHS but there is much about it that is praiseworthy. It is salutary to note that, despite the increased prosperity of the past two decades, the proportion of British adults who pay for private health insurance is 6%.

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