Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...socialized medicine scheme had survived its first major test in the House of Commons. Its champion, Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, held arrogant and undisputed possession of the field when Churchill walked out of the House (TIME, Feb. 28). This did not prove that Britain's socialized medicine plan was good medicine or good social organization. But the debate's results did prove that socialized medicine was what the British voters wanted...
...Runs the Show? To operate his plan Bevan has appointed 138 executive councils, each composed of 25 members who serve as volunteers, somewhat as do the members of U.S. draft boards. Bevan insisted, in opposition to some of his Socialist colleagues, that the boards remain nonpolitical, i.e., that Conservatives may serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service...
...heavily loaded. If their area is short of doctors, they have the right to keep a physician who wants to move away, from doing so. On the other hand, if their area is "overdoctored," they may refuse to let new doctors move in to practice under the health plan...
Although the majority of British doctors were originally opposed to it, 86% have joined the plan. Not all have done so because they wanted to, but because they could not earn enough money from private practice any more. Few can afford to hold out. Said one fashionable specialist: "Let's not be blind. In a few years, there'll probably be no private practice at all. All you do by not joining the plan is eventually to commit hara-kiri...
...British doctors now make less money than before the scheme went into effect; many make more. Almost all doctors are overworked, because of the enormous increase in patients and because of the new chit-writing and form-filling they must attend to. Contrary to dire predictions before the plan went into effect, doctors are free at least of one worry: there have been relatively few hypochondriacs. "It's been just like it was when they first put escalators in the underground stations," explains...