By Bagehot
THERE are lots of reasons to worry about the coalition’s relaunch of its big plan to reform the National Health Service, backed today by a speech from the prime minister, David Cameron in which he offered voters his personal guarantee that the NHS was not about to be privatised, would not see its funding cut, that waiting lists would not lengthen and that the government would not promote competition for its own sake. But ignoring the spiralling costs of the NHS was not an option, he said.