Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101: The Poor Must Die http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd07272010.html

The savage cutbacks and vast, churning upheavals being pushed through, at breakneck speed, by [Britain's] new Conservative government...will send millions of people tumbling down into a permanent underclass -- and...gut the national health service with a stealth "Americanization" that will turn the operation of local doctors' offices over to private firms...and privatize public hospitals, allowing them to "fail"...if they don't produce enough cash for their elite shareholders.