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Yeah, I realise that my earlier point might have sounded anti-American. It really wasn't meant to. It's more a comment on the focus of our politicians and how that has caused as many problems as it has solved. Can't just transplant ideas from a different culture and hope they're going to magically solve our problems.
A lot of the bloat and cost of public services over the last 20 years has actually not been to do with our attempts to cater to too many people and the rocketing tax bill that brings. It's more to do with the piecemeal dismantling of some parts of the system, the ill-thought out restructuring of other parts, and the culturally inappropriate adoption of another culture's solutions. Couple that with some shameful lining of each others pockets amongst both the political elite and the corporations and quangos that sprung up from that and you have the rootcause of the massive expansion of costs within the NHS and the welfare system.
It was justified through the shortening of waiting lists and delivery of better care, but those goals could have been met for a fraction of the cost if we hadn't done such a blinding job of breaking the system up into an incoherent mess.
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