Tonight, William Brangham and producer Jason Kane turn to the U.K., where its National Health Service covers everyone, while it sparks both inspiration and alarm in the U.S.

Should U.S. look to UK’s single-payer National Health Service for next health care moves? By William Brangham, Jason Kane. World May 22. Britons build scarecrows to say thank you to health care ...

The agency that oversees the programs- the Department of Health and Human Services- is having its workforce trimmed by 10,000 full-time positions, for example. Congress is reportedly eyeing other ...

The U.S. can learn from the National Health Service and other health systems about paths forward as it designs a uniquely American approach to its immense health care problems.

Britain's population has grown substantially since the National Health Service's inception, to roughly 66 million. In addition, as life expectancy has increased 13 years, so has the number of ...

Most winters, headlines warn that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is at “breaking point.” The alarms sound over and over and over again. But the current crisis has set warning bells ...

Britain’s health service has expanded its list of possible symptoms of coronavirus infection, after the Omicron subvariant known as BA.2 propelled new case reports upward again in much of Europe.

Seventy years after its foundation, Britain’s beloved National Health Service, ... “The health service is failing,” said Wayne Stevens, Mrs. Stevens’s 40-year-old grandson.

Decades ago, she said, the National Health Service saved her husband’s life when he had a heart attack. “It’s got to cope with a lot more people,” she said.