Govt out of pan and into fire on health funding

Opinion: It is often said the public demand for health services is insatiable because healthcare affects everyone directly. Dramatic advances in medical science over the last half century or so, enabling the earlier identification and successful treatment of previously killer diseases, alongside rapidly improving new medicines have increased public expectations of what the health services can do.
But that has also left governments around the world having to make hard choices to meet ever rising impatient public demand for more and better health services. Inevitably, it comes down to how best these services can be rationed to meet as broad a spread of needs as governments can reasonably afford.