Scientist Hawking blames UK government for health service "crisis"

Physicist Stephen Hawking found himself in a war of words with Britain's Conservative government after he said it had caused a crisis in the state-run National Health Service (NHS) and was leading it towards a profit-making U.S.-style system.Writing in the Guardian newspaper on Saturday, the British cosmologist, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged 21, also accused the government's health minister Jeremy Hunt of cherry-picking scientific evidence to justify policies.Hunt hit back sa