On the recordJuly 13, 2010
The problem they have is that 1.6 million people are employed by the British national health system, a huge employer in their country, so the economic impact, the political impact of making changes in that system is very difficult. That being said, it doesn't seem as though they have any choice because they are facing such difficult fiscal circumstances in their country and they are seeing these runaway health care costs contributing in a very significant way to that.
