In the UK we see the skyscraper-high bills in America as the Ghost of Christmas Future unless we fight to stop the NHS getting privatized. Politicians may act dumb, but they’re not, and we’ll be lured very stealthily into this particular gingerbread house. We’ll be promised it’s only little corners of the NHS that are changing, but there’ll be no trail of bread crumbs to help us find our way back through the forest. One day you’ll blink and the NHS will have completely evaporated—and if that blink turns out to be a stroke, you’re totally screwed.
