DrAs the impact of the debt crisis starts to permeate consciousness and people come to understand the extent to which politicians have issued political cheuqes the state is not going to be able to cash, NFR welcomes this move by the GPs of the Haxby Practice in York.

While elite interest groups and ministers will no doubt carry on peddling their egalitarian and statist lies, at least out in the real world there are still honest medical entrepreneurs ready to innovate and chart a way forward.

As states and their welfare-banking systems faultier, our best option is to seek private medical services for the  underprivileged and low paid.  At this time of looming crisis, the more people who are encouraged to opt out of the NHS the better.