Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a scene is virtually inconceivable. When you are raised in a system where health care is something to be taken entirely for granted it is hard to grasp that anyone, like this old man, need ever worry about having to pay for such services. Indeed a well-known British correspondent, trying to bring home this contrast, recently wrote an article that began: "If I could be rich, beautiful, young, but above all healthy, there is nowhere that I would rather live than New York...." This expresses a sentiment shared by many Europeans...
...commonest reaction among Americans to any mention of the British National Health Service (NHS) is that, together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health...
...position is not one of claiming that the British NHS is a perfect institution. It suffers indeed both from problems and limitations. Yet aside from these. I believe that comprehensive health care can work successfully and, moreover, serves as a cornerstone in the more caring society which the welfare state was intended to create. At the risk of lapsing into platitudes, one can say that health is something where there is little justification for the provision of different standards of service for those with different bank balances...
...more radical mood, created largely by the war, and this, in addition to the obvious failings of the previous system, meant that the introduction of the welfare state found widespread acceptance. The Labour minister of health, Nye Bevan, was initially faced with opposition by 90 per cent of the British Medical Association. They even attempted to strike, but eventually this opposition disappeared due to a series of compromises. This included the continuation of a small private sector, which shares a great many NHS facilities, and supposedly maintains the notion of free choice...
...deal will help SSC&B to act on a long-postponed plan to buy out the 51% of the Lintas agency network still owned by Unilever, the British-Dutch food, detergents and toiletries concern. SSC&B bought 49% of Lintas from Unilever in 1970, but until now has been unable to pull together enough capital to make good on an option to buy the rest...