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...change," he says. "The document specifically states that when you accept the authority to act as agent, you create a special fiduciary relationship with the principal that imposes legal responsibilities until you resign or the power of attorney is terminated." (Read "The Real Issues of End-of-Life Care...
Earlier this year, the British government hired management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to suggest ways the country's National Health Service (NHS) might save money in the face of rising health-care costs. But when a portion of McKinsey's confidential work calling for a 10% cut in the NHS workforce was leaked to the British press last week, politicians rushed to the airwaves to reject the report they themselves had commissioned. "That's not what we are about," Minister of Health Mike O'Brien told the BBC. "In core frontline services, we need more staff rather than fewer...
...debate rages in the U.S. over greater federal involvement in health care, Britain's socialized health-care system has come under scrutiny. The McKinsey report, and its fallout, highlights some of the pros and cons of such a system. On the one hand, McKinsey's analysts laid bare the scores of redundancies and inefficiencies within a bloated national health-care structure that employs some 1.5 million people in England. According to the Health Service Journal, which obtained a copy of the confidential report, McKinsey believes the NHS could afford to eliminate 137,000 clinical and administrative posts...
...rejection of the suggested job cuts by British politicians displays how a socialized medicine system can be shielded from market forces and that provision of care need not be sacrificed for a healthier bottom line. In the past, politicians have readily implemented efficiency measures that benefit patients - reducing the length of stay in hospitals, for example, and introducing automated drug distribution - while refusing to push through those that may curtail care. There will be many aspects of McKinsey's confidential report not pertaining to job cuts that the NHS will most likely adopt, says John Appleby, chief economist...