There's a compelling piece in today's Guardian about an all too illustrative example of the state of today's NHS.

As the (German) victim puts it:

"I can't understand at all why people tolerate a health system like this one, but go demonstrating in front of Westminster because of foxhunting. There's violence over foxhunting, but there are no riots because of the NHS. I don't understand that and I don't find it funny. In Germany, there's always this view that the English are so eccentric, they're cute in a way. But I don't find that cute or funny."

Indeed.

But things are on the move. The NHS is bust, and neither this government nor any other can fix it. The more of our money the government throws into the black hole of a broken health system, the sooner the public will start to protest.

And then we will start moving towards a health system which is not a moral outrage.