Collective grieving and the NHS reforms

A while ago I read an analysis of the public reaction in Greece to the austerity measures where it was argued that the nation was grieving. It wasn't an outburst of sadness or anger but a progression through the stages proposed by Kubler -Ross all those years ago. you probably remember how it goes (Denial Anger Bargainning Depression Acceptance). The commentator was asking whether the reaction of the Greek public was more than attributable to a mediterranean temprament but in fact the Anger phase of the Kubler -Ross model. Since then publication of the suicide figures for Greece would indicate that collectively they are in a state of malaise.
Could the application of that model be applied here in the UK as we face a momentous change to a nationally cherished system of health care from which we all have probably benefitted? Its hard not to see the events of the last few weeks as not a hardening of self interested stances but a real move to a phase of Anger.As any student of Kubler -Ross's model will tell you , it's not necessary to progress through the stages in a ordered sequence. So just perhaps the preceived failure of Bargainning may take us back to Anger in a way never experienced before in the history of the NHS.