The National Health Service was a political settlement based on meso corporatism. That settlement was destabilised by economic competition in markets and political competition in democratic arenas. The reforms of recent years are an attempt to create a new authority structure capable of legitimising the rationing decisions made in the delivery of health care. That attempt is failing.
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