The ASI blog has a fascinating piece:

The gap is even wider than it appears, Nelson tells us, because the NHS price list makes no provision for overheads and staff pensions, whereas the Bupa price does. Furthermore, Bupa charges specially low rates to government, averaging a 20 percent discount. This would make Bupa cheaper in London for heart by-passes, knee replacement and prostate surgery, even before the extra NHS overheads are added.

Who’d a’thunk it? Socialist medecine is actually more expensive than free market!
There’s a similar deabte goingon about what might happen if the UK left the EU. Surely disaster would strike as all the exports to Europe would have to pay duties and tariffs? Several people have actually pointed out that if UK business was free of the more absurd pieces of EU bureaucracy they would be able to pay the tariffs and still come out ahead.