But Health Care Service and other health plans say there are advantages to consumers and small businesses if the exchanges are operated by states.
On the other hand some health service staff were alarmed that the new inspectorate would led to "naming and shaming" of hospitals and individuals.
There's an important question of whether you allow this particular treatment to have priority over other treatments in our health service.
Welsh Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts said the assembly's public accounts committee had heard of cases where the protection for whistle blowers in the health service and other public bodies was deficient.
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Though survey evidence shows that the British are less satisfied with their health service than other nations are with theirs, and want more money spent on it, come election time they vote with their wallets and choose governments that promise not to put taxes up.
The United States never had a BBC or a National Health Service, but other, now diminished or vanished features of American society had some of the same effects.
But I think there are some important lessons to learn and not least the fact that what people can't do is alight on an individual case and use that really to damn the whole of the National Health Service and actually more importantly I think, the doctors and nurses, the other people who provide the treatment and care in the National Health Service.
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As a result, unlike every other product and service Americans purchase, health care for many was paid by a third party.
The Tories might entrench an exemption from the working-time directive, eg, in the National Health Service, as several other countries want one too but the European Parliament, which under Lisbon has equal legislative power with EU governments, may not agree.
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In Wales, the party is promising more spending on the health service and on the police and other public services.
The demand for services was mixed among the various districts, with strength in technology and health care industries offsetting some weakness in other service sectors.
And in the long run it is costing the NHS health service more money when some people contract other illnesses while waiting for treatment.
What Japan will need in the coming decades is a way of reorganising its society and shifting the workers it has away from jobs that are unneeded and into health care, home maintenance and other jobs in the service sector.
Protecting public services, such as the imperfectly reformed National Health Service (see article), is the other, for public services are disproportionately used by the poor, and their employees tend to vote Labour.
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The health committee, which is holding an inquiry into the issue, heard from bosses at NHS Tayside, NHS 24 and the Scottish Ambulance Service, as well as representatives from other rural health boards.
The Iron Lady, Mrs Thatcher, was widely seen to have smashed this cosy consensus, but in fact left the National Health Service, the unemployment benefit, and many other welfare provisions, if not unscathed, still standing.
As a national health service it contains more data about health than any other comparable health system in the world.
The Kennedy dynasty, known for a history of national public service, has spent decades championing the rights of working men and women, with an emphasis on health care, education and community service programs, among other things.
When it announced this month that it will cut 5%, or 900 members, of its staff, it also said it will give affected employees two weeks' pay for each year of service and six months of health-care benefits, among other perks.
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On the other hand, a free, heavily advertised service could be swamped by hypochondriacs flapping over the latest health scare.
But there must be a concern that what we are actually seeing is a health service too ready to give patients pills for mental conditions which are helped better in other ways.
Mental health charity Suffolk User Forum said other people had expressed "quite negative feedback" about the Crisis Team service.
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