Some worry that the chancellor of the exchequer's medicine may amount to a fiscal overdose that will kill rather than cure the patient as the economy seeks to recover from a savage recession.

有人担心这位财政大臣开的药方不但没法治愈正在从严重衰退中努力恢复的经济，反而可能因为用药过猛而害死它。

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Neither money nor more legislation will cure this malaise of the health service. It demands a change of attitude: put the patient first and to hell with the regulations.

能够消除健康服务弊端的，既不是钱，也不是法律，而是态度：患者至上，让法规去见鬼。

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Mr Rogoff likens the situation to that of a terminally ill patient who is offered a risky treatment that may cure the disease but is sure to have nasty long-term side-effects.

Mr Rogoff把形势比作一个绝症病人接受一项有风险的治疗，也许能冶好但确定会有严重的、长期的副作用。

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Clinical trials have suggested the combination of the drug and chemotherapy can increase patient's chances of a cure and may live longer than if they received chemotherapy alone.

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I'm not sure it would be worth more in the short term, but that's part of the cure the patient needs--a little radical surgery.

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In order for the NHS to work stop them competing with the corporate institutions and put doctors on a commission basis, where they are able to get very high salaries proportional to the number of times a patient has to return to get a cure ie pay them for results and not numbers.

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