The Glories Of The NHS
"The health service was launched on a fallacy. First, we were going to finance everything, cure the nation and then spending would drop. That fallacy has been exposed. Then there was the period when everybody thought the public could have whatever they needed on the health service - it was just a question of governmental will. Now we recognize that no country, even if they are prepared to pay the taxes, can supply everything."
Dr. David Owen , Labour Minister in charge of the NHS, from the Sunday Times (London) as quoted in, "The Infirmity of British Medicine," by Harry Schwartz, published in "The Future That Doesn't Work, Social Democracy's Failures in Britain," Edited by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. Copyright 1975, 1976, 1977
"The plight of Britain's health service conflicts desperately with the avowedly utopian ideals of its founders. Yet the myth persists - the myth that the NHS not only can but does offer a high and unvarying level of medical care to all members of the community. For most of us, it is only when we join a year-long hospital waiting list, or have to take an injured child to a hospital casualty department on Sunday afternoon, that we realize just how threadbare and starved financially the service really is...Not only is there an acute shortage of resources, but the expertise and facilities that are available are all too often dispensed via a conveyor-belt system which can at times be positively inhuman."
Bernard Dixon, editor of the British magazine, "New Scientist," as quoted in "The Infirmity of British Medicine," by Harry Schwartz, 1975, published in "The Future That Doesn't Work, Social Democracy's Failures in Britain," Edited by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. Copyright 1975, 1976, 1977
Dr. David Owen , Labour Minister in charge of the NHS, from the Sunday Times (London) as quoted in, "The Infirmity of British Medicine," by Harry Schwartz, published in "The Future That Doesn't Work, Social Democracy's Failures in Britain," Edited by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. Copyright 1975, 1976, 1977
"The plight of Britain's health service conflicts desperately with the avowedly utopian ideals of its founders. Yet the myth persists - the myth that the NHS not only can but does offer a high and unvarying level of medical care to all members of the community. For most of us, it is only when we join a year-long hospital waiting list, or have to take an injured child to a hospital casualty department on Sunday afternoon, that we realize just how threadbare and starved financially the service really is...Not only is there an acute shortage of resources, but the expertise and facilities that are available are all too often dispensed via a conveyor-belt system which can at times be positively inhuman."
Bernard Dixon, editor of the British magazine, "New Scientist," as quoted in "The Infirmity of British Medicine," by Harry Schwartz, 1975, published in "The Future That Doesn't Work, Social Democracy's Failures in Britain," Edited by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. Copyright 1975, 1976, 1977
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