All it does is fuel the growth of the private sector. You should see how the private insurers rub their hands. Indeed advertising for health insurance relies entirely on NHS waiting list figures and fears generated by headlines of NHS failures. The danger is that could become self-fulfilling. The truth is that the NHS is almost certainly getting better and has been steadily over the years.
Treatments are getting better, so are doctors as outcomes are monitored and standards pulled up.
It is far better managed since the Clarke reforms, even if his more extreme market methods did need moderating. Today, at last more effort and money is going into prevention of ill health. And yet the level of public debate about the NHS has been conducted at ever more hysterical levels, with the media, health trade unions and politicians competing to blast out the worst horror stories, scandals and scares. Labour was just as much to blame in opposition, pumping out fear and despondency. Now they reap the results in the extravagant expectations generated by their rhetoric.