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England has a two-tiered medical system, whereby the government rations the care that it reimburses, and delays can be very long.  There is another tier for citizens who purchase their own care with their own money.  The NICE entity is in charge with limiting and rationing the government-reimbursed care.

England has a two-tiered medical system, whereby the government rations the care that it reimburses, and delays can be very long.  There is another tier for citizens who purchase their own care with their own money.  The NICE entity is in charge with limiting and rationing the government-reimbursed care.

In 1946 [[C.S. Lewis]] wrote a novel dentitled ''That Hideous Strength'', in which the arch-evil organization had the same acronym of "NICE", short for the National Institute for Co-operative Experimentation.  The coincidence is coincidental, given English-speakers' propensity for creating [[Acronym|acronyms]] that correspond to existing common English words<ref>http://acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=nice&string=exact</ref>.

In 1946 [[C.S. Lewis]] wrote a novel entitled ''That Hideous Strength'', in which the arch-evil organization had the same acronym of "NICE", short for the National Institute for Co-operative Experimentation.  The coincidence is coincidental, given English-speakers' propensity for creating [[Acronym|acronyms]] that correspond to existing common English words<ref>http://acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=nice&string=exact</ref>.

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