Your Health

New Statesman Special Supplemet

It has become conventional wisdom that we should welcome the government's conversion to high public spending on health. Indeed, judging by Gordon Brown's poll ratings, the 2002 budget was one of the most popular for many years, even though it included what was effectively a 1p income tax rise for everybody in work, in order to finance improvements to the NHS. But is this the best way to make Britain healthy?

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With thanks to Merck Sharp & Dohme