As a few of our misguided souls in the U.S. consider nationalized health care, Dalrymple highlights a nonsensical new NHS policy in Britain, the kind of thing we Americans should expect if we do the unthinkable:

In yet another governmental attempt to pretend that British public services are responsive to the opinions of the people they serve, GPs will have the incomes of their practices reduced if a sufficient number of patients answer a questionnaire, sent to them six months after their contact with the practice, unfavourably.