God save the NHS | Bagehot's notebook | Economist.com

THERE'S a lot of ignorance on both sides of the transatlantic spat over health-care models and the NHS, in which both Gordon Brown and David Cameron are now embroiled. In Britain there are exaggerated ideas about Americans being turned away from hospitals to die in the gutter. And in America there seems to be a silly notion that having a state-funded health system such as the NHS is somehow tantamount to socialism. Read More