The British National Health Service ain't perfect, though I've always found it pretty good, including today. But the amount spent on the bureaucracy is far far less proportionally than is spent in the private medical sector.

The point I'm making there is not that it should be cloned eleswehere, but that the assumption that the private sector is necessarily more cost effective and so forth just isn't borne out by the facts.

But if anyone wants to argue about this, the place to do it is on the new thread or somewhere else, rather than here, or it all gets too confusing.