The Economist (US), March 18th, 1989
Doctor Whinge, QC
WITHIN the space of a month, the government has announced radical reforms of the National Health Service (NHS) and the legal profession. The resulting uproar has made ministers nervous. The health-service changes carry a greater risk in the polls - the British are much attached to their NHS, and will not easily be persuaded that it needs reform, rather than simply more public spending. Barristers are less loved than doctors. On the other hand, the House of Commons has almost 100 lawyers (two-thirds of them Tories) and only six doctors. So it is on its law reforms (see next...
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