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It would be a fanatical supporter of the competitive society who asserted that the work done in the field of preventive medicine shows the enslavement of the individual to what has come to be described in the United States as ‘statism’, and is therefore to be deplored. Two ways of trying to meet the high cost of sickness are the group insurance and the attachment of medical benefits to the terms of employment. An industrial basis is too narrow for the wide range of medical needs which should be met, both for the worker and for his family. Where a patient claimed he could not afford treatment, an investigation would have to be made into his means, with all the personal humiliation and vexation involved. But it does mean that the Service is there to be used at the time you need it without payment anxieties.
Catriona McPherson was born in the village of Queensferry in south-east Scotland and left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics. Although it is essential to retain parliamentary accountability for the Service, the appointment of members of the various administrative bodies should not involve the Minister of Health. This book explains how a socialist government in Scotland can make our country a better place for the young, old and disabled in a world of global capitalism. We had experience of this in Britain where certain of the Approved Societies under the old National Health Insurance recruited a disproportionate number of members from industries with a high degree of sickness and accident rate and affected by serious industrial depression. THE field in which the claims of individual commercialism come into most immediate conflict with reputable notions of social values is that of health.She lets people be shown as they are, without all the loose ends neatly tied off or connected, with breaks and breathing gaps for where the light gets in. There was a certain irony about this, because when the time came for enrolment in the Health Service more than ninety per cent of the population hastened to get their names in, some under the impression, helped by the B. Although the statistics relate to the forties and fifties, the most striking thing about the book is the way that Bevan’s perceptions remain directly relevant today.
There is no reason why, after the home demand has been met, they should not prove the basis of a thriving export trade. This arises in a variety of ways; in the medical history of the patient, his work, his relations with his family and with the society of which he is a member. They create a chaos of little or big projects, all aiming at the same end: assisting the individual in time of sickness.These are usually more expensive and often no better, indeed frequently inferior, to the drugs contained on the official lists and the recognized Formulary.
The essence of a satisfactory health service is that the rich and the poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability, and wealth is not advantaged. This is part of the general opposition of Conservative ideas, and it is strong in the medical profession, though the expression of it tends to be supercharged with the emotions borrowed from other fears and ambitions. Thus to the property lobby is added the lobby of those who stand to lose under the national project. Group insurance is merely another way of bringing the advantages of collective action to the service of the individual.The reason why this was tolerated at all was because it was put to me by the representatives of the royal colleges that in the absence of pay-bed sections in the hospitals the specialists would resort in greater measure to nursing homes. Growing up in the hardship of a South Wales mining community, Aneurin Bevan developed a passionate conviction in the need for collective action by his class. The National Health Service and the Welfare State have come to be used as interchangeable terms, and in the mouths of some people as terms of reproach. It claims that financial anxiety in time of sickness is a serious hindrance to recovery, apart from its unnecessary cruelty. Sadly the post-2010 generation of politicians who've been supposedly running the country care only for themselves and what they can get out of it.
The difficulty of applying the principle of election, rather than selection, arises from the fact that no electoral constituency corresponds with the functional requirements of the Service. They convert economic continuity, which is a by-product of communal life, into a commodity, and it is then bought and sold like any other commodity. These are shot through with political animus of the most violent description – usually Conservative.We now knew the extent to which the people would use the existing facilities and what it would cost us.
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