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Doctors Versus Workers
Author(s) -
Green David G.
Publication year - 1984
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/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01027.x
Subject(s) - power (physics) , state (computer science) , health care , collective bargaining , bargaining power , service (business) , subject (documents) , control (management) , political science , public relations , business , public administration , economics , law , management , marketing , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , library science , computer science
The National Health Service is claimed to be a unique and effective instrument for maintaining the health of the mass of the people. Dr David Green claims that the evidence from research into the 19th century development of health services indicates almost the contrary: that the medical profession, faced by the resolute and often superior bargaining power of the working people organised through friendly societies and other voluntary organisations, gradually moved to replace them by the state as a source of finance (1911) and ultimately the organiser of the medical services (1948). In the event, they have undermined the bargaining power of the ordinary consumer, especially the poor, and subjected him to the control of politicians and bureaucrats. The people are not sovereign in medical care, but subject.