[CraigJPerry]

Taking a step back from the impact on patients, if you subscribe to conservative economic thinking, this would be a good thing in the long run. Of course the impact would be blunt but relatively short and in conservative thinking a quick swallow of a bitter pill for future benefits is a perfect idea.

The future benefit being get the state out of medicine.

I don’t subscribe to this view at all but having read Rees-Mogg’s daddy’s book, the Soverign Individual i will happily stake my house on the above being very close to the victorian geezer’s view on this.