Digital governance has revolutionised the NHS. While progress has been slow and very expensive, underpinning the progress is the ease … Continue reading “Is state-funded healthcare the best we can hope for?”

Many years ago I was in hospital for a minor operation. The tiny ward had room for four but there … Continue reading “The NHS should be financing a campaign for private hospitals”

We all know what would happen if the state nationalised all pubs, integrated them into a “National Pub Service”, and … Continue reading “Beating the endowment effect: denationalising healthcare, step by step”

In the early 1990s, Nigel Lawson dubbed the NHS “the closest thing the English have to a religion”. Today, this … Continue reading “No frills, please: how private healthcare is spreading to India’s poor”

The prevailing Western NGO view of how we should solve problems such as lack of health and education provision in … Continue reading “Mutual health insurance in India”