in recent years, Britain’s leaders have enacted major changes to the NHS, channeling a small but increasing share of the country’s health-care spending to the private sector and opening the door for American companies to enter the market. McKinsey played an outsized role in shaping and implementing these changes. Two of its biggest American clients benefited from them. The story of how the firm took center stage in overhauling the NHS says as much about the U.K. as it does about the firm. For in Britain, McKinsey had found a perfect host.
