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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Born about government health care from Britain as China's population shrinks for the first

time in decades.

Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Joe Sternberg in London and Kim Strassel.

Britain's National Health Service has been an immovable object in the politics of the

United Kingdom for decades.

But is that finally changing?

The Journal has an editorial recently on the meltdown in the NHS, including the fact

that ambulance drivers have gone on strike.

And then once patients reach the emergency room, 35% of them now face weights above four

hours between the decision that's made to admit them and their transfer to a bed for

the appropriate treatment.

Joe, can you give us a sense of what exactly is going on over there?

Yeah, Kyle.

So the NHS winter crises have become something of an annual tradition over here over the

years.

And it's usually because the National Health Service struggles to deal with winter seasonal

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