U.K. Government to Hospitals: Make Money Overseas

LONDON (AP) — The British government says it wants the country’s state-funded hospitals to help support themselves by setting up profit-making branches in other countries.  

The Conservative-led government is searching for ways to reform the National Health Service, which delivers free care to all but costs the equivalent of more than $158 billion a year to run.  

The government said Tuesday that it was setting up a body to help world-renowned institutions, such as the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, establish overseas branches.