NHS's report card not good

Last year, Gordon Brown commissioned Lord Darzi, a surgeon and health minister, to create a plan to 'celebrate' the 60th anniversary of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). Lord Darzi's final report contained some surprising conclusions, says the Economist.

In exchange for the security of a largely state-funded system, Britons have a state-run monopoly that is unresponsive to patient needs and slow to innovate, says the Economist.

With health care inflation outstripping the ordinary kind and an increasing aversion to higher taxes, Briton's extraordinary low level of private spending on health may have to change.

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