Word: nhs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down costs; medical outlays as a percentage of G.N.P. (5.6% at last count, in 1977) have been fairly stable. But there has been a price to pay. The nation is suffering from a doctor shortage, because many physicians have left the country feeling that they cannot earn enough under NHS, and waits of three to six months for elective surgery are common...
...overall there have been no fundamental alterations. The return to power of the Conservatives in 1951 did not result in the dismantling of the NHS, just as later Republican administrations did not undo the reforms of the New Deal...
Attributing Britain's post-war economic difficulties to the introduction of NHS is too simple. We need to examine some of the far deeper structural problems concerned with questions such as the level of industrial investment in order to explain her declining economic fortunes, and that would take an article in itself. Furthermore, countries such as Germany have comprehensive health insurance, and are by no means in a weak state economically...
...vast proportion of the British public has been satisfied with the NHS. Polls conducted earlier this year showed that 85 per cent agreed that it provided a good service. In 1948 doctors' waiting rooms overflowed with people who had not seen a doctor in years. In particular there were many uninsured patients who had accumulated debts which they could not pay off. Since then there has been a substantial rise in the overall standard of health. One example is the infant mortality rate, which was virtually halved during the first three years of the NHS...
...European models. Yet much of the underlying philosophy is similar. In practice the U.S. would have 30 years of European experience to learn from. On the basis of this they could probably make a national health insurance scheme work better and avoid some of the problems encountered by the NHS. It needs only sufficient political will for these measures to be introduced. Kennedy is confident that this is bound to come; if not in the next session of Congress, then in the next one. In the meantime, high costs and uneven services will continue...