But the critics and supporters agree one of the British national health service's biggest challenges, as it enters its seventh decade, are the mounting cost of new technology and medicines, and an aging population.
VOA: standard.2009.09.24
Greenspan has been giving us the worst of both worlds: a mountingcost of money and more inflation.
As in Thailand, under-capitalised small banks were over-extended, especially in property, and were hurt by the mountingcost of repaying foreign-currency loans.
But the rebound is threatened, some experts say, by the mountingcost of new technologies demanded by government regulators to make cars safer, cleaner and more fuel-efficient.