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Expect a lot more of this, as our GP services are bought up by American health insurance companies looking for new sources of revenue once American taxpayers tire of subsidising them, as they very soon will, and instead demand first the public option and then, in short order, the single-payer system.

"They don't have it in America", NHS-haters always used to intone, as if that were the end of the matter. Will their American equivalents soon be using the line, "They don't have it in Britain"? Probably not. But we very soon won't have it in Britain. It's as if Tony Blair never left office.