Summary Australia and the UK had very similar healthcare systems until the end of the 1940s, when they diverged. The … Continue reading “Wizards of Oz? What the UK can learn from Australia’s healthcare system”

A new publication from the Institute of Economic Affairs, by Dr Nima Sanandaji, examines the lessons Western nations could learn … Continue reading “The Henry Fords of Healthcare”

Author Nima Sanandaji outlines how entrepreneurship in healthcare can create better outcomes Most of the benefits of free markets have not been … Continue reading “Time to open up our health system to “disruptive innovation,” says new IEA publication”

When I was a PhD student in the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last … Continue reading “The battle of ideas is NEVER over – and it is currently “less over” than ever”

Of all the attempts of NHS mandarins to blame patients for the spiralling costs of their bureaucratic leviathan, Simon Stevens’ … Continue reading “The NHS’s healthy living delusion”

What is the future of the NHS? As part of our Paragon Initiative, the IEA hosted a panel discussion to … Continue reading “Panel Discussion: The Problems Facing the NHS (Video)”

Technological progress is often held to be one of the main drivers of rising healthcare spending. Medical science advances, enabling … Continue reading “Why the health sector is like a blocked drain, and how to unblock it”

Individual healthcare costs are generally unpredictable. We cannot know whether we will need healthcare treatment next year, what kind of … Continue reading “Prefunded healthcare: sensible, but rare”

The Economist, 11 April 2020 With the 2020 General Election less than four weeks away, this special edition and the … Continue reading “An article from an unlikely future. Part 1: Healthcare”