You’re welcome, America…  

Now I surely don’t need to explain my pro-American outlook, do I? If I do, it will have to wait for now because I thought I’d make some observations on America’s  (narrowly secured) embrace of a new health care system – even health care service  -  after President Obama made this the defining  issue of his candidacy during the last Presidential race. It was shameful for certain British Conservative politicians to attempt to assassinate  our NHS in the US media – going far out of their way to do so. Nonetheless a word of thanks to those who tried. Not only did they reveal some real Tory hostility  to the NHS - still – but they also illustrated the growing ties between the Tories and the US Republicans. More on that later, too.    The introduction of a new health care system in the US should give British progressives a  warm glow; we were the torch...