Like so many other Englishmen, Canon Giles Fraser has heard about enough of the American right’s misrepresentations of his country’s National Health Service:
If the NHS is so terrible, why do so few people go private in the UK? If the NHS is so terrible, why do we have a higher life-expectancy in this country than in the United States, and, on most measures, can expect roughly similar health out-
comes from our different arrangements?
And don’t miss Steve Bates’ article: In defence of the NHS: I’m glad I didn’t break my leg in the US