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BACK TO THE FUTURE: TOWARDS A BETTER STATE OF HEALTHCARE
Author(s) -
Evans Tim,
Evans Helen
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00338
Subject(s) - rationing , government (linguistics) , health care , service (business) , business , point (geometry) , state (computer science) , nursing , public relations , medicine , marketing , economics , political science , economic growth , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , algorithm
In 1948, the government nationalised more than 3,000 independent hospitals, homes and clinics to create a National Health Service that was supposed to deliver ‘all medical, dental and nursing care’‐ free at the point of delivery. Demonstrating that the service failed to do this and instead substituted rational pricing signals with numerous forms of rationing, the authors examine the re‐emergence of a sizeable independent health and social care sector today and its implications for the future.