British woes

To the editor:

Cal Thomas’ jubilant column about the troubles of Britain’s National Health Service (Journal-World, July 31) fails to mention that the troubles are largely being managed by the newly elected Conservative government. Of course a party that does not believe in government-supported health care (or railways or anything else) will happily demand austerity of the type Thomas describes.

The real warning for us Americans is that, now that we have a toehold on a civilized health care system, the last thing we should want is to hand our future back to the party who fought it every step of the way.

Richard Hardin,

Lawrence