I suspect that some of the meddling with the NHS is intended to be disastrous so that public opinion is more likely to accept profit-generating private schemes.

NB Some schools (at least here in Scotland) do offer classes on the theory part of the driving test as "interest" courses.

Edit: I eventually found the quote that sums up the approach that is being taken with the NHS:

"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

Milton Friedman

Of course, the crisis that created the NHS was WW2 - I remember my father (who served in the RAF in WW2) being pretty clear that returning to the pre-war status-quo was not an option that anyone was interested in, which is why there was such a resounding defeat of Churchill at the polls when the war ended.