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‘The NHS has done the health of the people a dis-service because it has prevented the development of more spontaneous, organic, local, voluntary and sensitive medical services that would have grown up as incomes rose and medical science and technology advanced. If it were not for the politically controlled NHS we should have seen new forms of medical organisation and financing that better reflected consumer preferences, requirements and circumstances.’ (Arthur Seldon, The Litmus Papers: A National Health Dis-service, London, Centre for Policy Studies, 1980.)
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Allsop, J. (1989). Health. In: McCarthy, M. (eds) The New Politics of Welfare. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20384-0_3
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