To begin with, the private system in Britain does little work at either end of the medical spectrum where most patients confront the system.
The one big idea that looms is that of electoral reform, but it is hardly new: the Liberal Democrats, the keenest advocates (and principal beneficiaries) of a change in the voting system, have been complaining about Britain's first-past-the-post system for years.
The Trident missile system, Britain's nuclear deterrent, is carried by submarines based at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, near Helensburgh.
The payments system, in effect, is the plumbing for Britain's financial system, which is often said to be backward in comparison with other countries.
Europeans are likely to want Britain in the system, though they will probably exact a price.
They are afoot today, with the reform of Britain's banking system, and new data about the Scottish economy.
They say a radical overhaul of the commission system in Britain makes little sense when America, the world's largest equity market, will continue with today's arrangements, soft commissions and all. (Softing is more generous and more widely used in America than in Britain.) To have a different commission system from international peers would put British fund managers at a disadvantage, or so say London money-men.
So it was hoped that the list supplied to the port authorities on the continent would keep out the hooligans, but many in Britain had long been arguing the system was flawed.
"When the supreme leader says so clearly that Britain is evil, and that Britain is conspiring, the Iranian system has to do something about that, " such as expel British diplomats -- knowing London would have to respond.
Immigration minister Phil Woolas recently admitted that the student visa system is "the major loophole in Britain's border controls".
The thesis was that Britain's electoral system had led to an overpowerful executive that ruled the country only nominally through debate in Parliament, and actually by the ruthless whipping of subservient members through their parties' lobbies.
Why, they ask, should this supposedly independent commission not also be allowed to weigh the merits of the existing system, which has served Britain well for a century (and which, by the by, has delivered Tories into government for 35 of the 53 years since the war)?
Aided by the first-past-the-post electoral system as used in Britain and the United States the voters four years ago produced the biggest turnaround in parliamentary history.
The balance-sheet of Britain's banking system, at 450% of GDP, was half the (relative) size of Iceland's at the end of last year.
Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.
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That has led, over a long period of time, to far better cure and survival rates for cancer, for heart disease, than we have in Britain and ultimately we have to not worry so much about the system as do we actually give people in Britain the health care we deserve, and that's what I want to see.
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And it is to ask the question whether the global financial system, and the economies of developed countries like Britain, would be in such dire straights if banks had been subject to a simple leverage ceiling, limiting how much banks could lend in total, irrespective of the nature of their loans, as a multiple of their capital.
But it also advertises the absurdities of Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system.
There are also worrying vulnerabilities in the architecture of Britain's financial system.
He forecast a cold, frosty and mainly dry night in Britain and warned that the system of low pressure was likely to wreak more havoc in Germany and Poland overnight.
One advantage of the system used in Great Britain and Ireland is that using only occasional rounds for handicapping liberates golfers there to speed through the rest of their matches.
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New systems of proportional representation have been introduced for elections in Scotland and Wales, and for the European Parliament, in place of Britain's time-honoured system of first-past-the-post.
Those who track terror tactics say the United States could learn from Great Britain's experience with its train system and threats by the Irish Republican Army.
These long-established schools have maintained their control of the commanding heights of Britain's social system.
Many fund-management firms and stockbrokers in Britain are jumping to defend the present system.
Mr Duncan Smith has outlined a range of options for the wholesale reform of Britain's benefit system, which he claims has reached breaking point.
The other flywheel system, developed by Automotive Hybrid Power, also in Britain, for the Williams F1 team, runs at 100, 000 revolutions a minute.
Among the 20 leading democracies, Britain's winner-take-all plurality system is shared by only the United States and Canada, whose separation of powers and federal structures make it tolerable, and by New Zealand which suffers from the same see-saw of dogmatic minority government as Britain does.
With a fiscal position little better than most of the Mediterranean countries' and a far larger banking system than in any other European economy, Britain with the euro would have been Ireland to the power of eight.
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