Posted by Matt Hawes on 11/06/09 2:37 PM Last updated 11/06/09 5:16 PM [Newer: Keep the Pressure On!] [Older: Ron and Rand Paul Interviews]

As part of our Operation Health Freedom series, British MEP Daniel Hannan talks about the National Health Service (NHS), England's publicly-funded health care system, and looks at why it is so difficult to reform such a system once people get used to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5vSkpIFByk

Click here to view a version without edited clips.  Read a transcript here.

Posted 11/09/09 04:21 AM celticreeler Rolla, MO

Thanks for providing this, an oasis of calm analysis much needed by one driven nearly mad by the complete lunacy exhibited in Congress. The "chickens have come home to roost," as they say. Decades of hearing private enterprise demonized as greedy, avaricious, and insensitive to the needs of others, combined with a generous helping of class envy and an inclination to seize the goods of others, produces a populace eager for the only thing less sensitive to their needs than a big insurance company--GOVERNMENT. Oh, and God bless and keep Dr. Paul, the Champion of the Constitution.