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Henceforth Britons must pay a shilling (14?) for prescriptions and up to a pound ($2.80) for each trip to the dentist. But, Miss Hornsby-Smith insisted, many of the new changes are not as unreasonable as Labor alleged. For instance, said she, the new ?3 charge for orthopedic shoes (actual...
Second-Day Fight. "Don't suppose there'll be many there today, after last night," said a Briton queuing for a seat in the gallery. "You'll be surprised," replied a bobby. "They won't miss today's fight." The fight involved Tory plans to...
"Maneuvering." A shilling for each prescription was not a new proposal: the Labor government itself once approved health charges. But to Rebel Nye Bevan, who had bolted Attlee's cabinet in protest, the chance was irresistible. He got to his feet with disarming bashfulness. He was suffering from a...
*Bevan's cynical explanation of his change in attitude: "When I accepted the shilling prescription charge, I was maneuvering . . ."
¶ A whole new scale of charges for National Health Service, sacrosanct to Labor's left wing: one shilling on prescriptions, for which, Butler gibed, he planned to use legislation "very conveniently left behind" by Labor; a $2.80 fee for dentistry; charges up to one half the cost for...