Today’s online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine has two articles, one by Katherine Sebelius regarding the recent health reform legislation in the United States, and another article by Nick Black, M.D. on the United Kingdom’s proposed changes to the NHS.
The appearance of these two articles with almost inexplicable timing reveals how two different systems see themselves as failures and are seeking to correct it by going in opposite directions.
It begs the question, “Who is ahead in creating a ‘more perfect world?”