Rationing care to smokers and the obese will not solve its financial crisis | Observer editorial

Rationing care to smokers and the obese will not solve its financial crisis

Since June last year, Brexit has dominated the government’s agenda, absorbed the bulk of ministers’ energy and been the focus of civil servants in Whitehall. This state of affairs will continue for at least the next few years. Yet from the welfare state, to prisons, to our schools and hospitals, there is mounting evidence that a state that first started to founder seven years ago, is now running aground.

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