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The Rise and Fall of the National Health Service
Only the rich and middle class could easily afford healthcare, many others could not. If you were a worker earning less than three pounds a week you were on the panel,. You paid national insurance and that covered you for general practice and for drugs, not your family. So it was tough. And that need, that poverty, is what drove many like this woman doctor Edith Summerskill who later became a labour politician to campaign for universal healthcare in Britain.
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