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Medical Care Before the NHS
Author(s) -
Green David G.
Publication year - 1994
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.1468-0270.1994.tb00227.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , medical care , business , medical insurance , primary care , medical emergency , medicine , family medicine , actuarial science , computer science , programming language
Before 1911 three‐quarters of those covered by the 1911 National Insurance Act were already paying for primary medical care. By 1939 about 60% of acute hospital care was provided by voluntary hospitals. The huge scope of private provision demonstrates that iswas unnecessary for the state to take over medical care.