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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 754841" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=2&amp;hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=2&amp;hp</a>Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care&nbsp;To shift control of England’s $160 billion&nbsp; annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the&nbsp; local level.Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would&nbsp; be meted out to&nbsp; general practitioners, who would use the money to buy&nbsp; services from <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/hospitals/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" target="_blank">hospitals</a> and other health care providers.&nbsp;The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with&nbsp; the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in&nbsp; the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45&nbsp; percent.&nbsp;Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of&nbsp; bureaucracy would be abolished.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 754841, member: 12952"] [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=2&hp[/url] [B]Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care[/B] To shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/hospitals/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"]hospitals[/URL] and other health care providers. The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished. [/QUOTE]

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