Just back from a wonderful five day trip to Wales and England, complete with five rounds of golf and two live football matches. While in London, I couldn’t help but notice the “big news story of the day” on the front pages of all the London fishwrap (that’s newspapers, for those of you from Birdsboro).   One headline read, “GPs TO GET BONUS IF THEY DON’T REFER YOU TO HOSPITAL”. Confirmed by the National Health Service (NHS),  the story details  a nationwide  system of cash bonuses paid to general practitioners  for not providing surgery referrals.   Believe it !      Specifically, one are of focus is on the limitation on cancer consultations or tests which are intended to be carried out within two weeks from an initial diagnosis by a GP.  Britain already has one of Western Europe’s lowest cancer survival rates.    What a great systematic  cost containment program this is, one which should not surprise anyone as being just around the Obamacare corner here in the States.                               WHAT THE HECK !