The Office of Life Sciences Blueprint for the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is a remarkable document. It's found a way to turn the nation's single largest consumer of public funds into a profit centre. Although the blandly worded manifesto for a technologically led healthcare system will probably remain mostly unimplemented amid the upheaval of a likely change in ruling party come 2010, it still carries a slightly chilling undercurrent.
Take this nugget for example (with my emphasis):
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