I’ve written a response to Andy Burnham’s astounding Guardian article on the NHS on the SLF website:
Given the choice between “national”, “health” and “service” the word that Burnham considers most key to the Labour approach is the former. Ignore “health”, never mind “service” – who needs a bandage when you can wrap yourself in a flag?
Read the full article here, but frankly, Richard Grayson’s article from Reinventing the State on the NHS is more interesting.
While we’re at it, here’s an article from Chris Huhne from 2004 about why the party rejected the social insurance model for healthcare (pdf), courtesy of the Beveridge Group.