FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: part one—- the creation of the NHS
Reasons Revisited
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Is It a Miscalculation of Sublime Dimensions?
Tory treasury were remarkably unconcerned about what the n h s was going to cost. Enoch powell later says, when he comes in as health minister, he said, it was aa miscalculation of sublime dimensions. They'd come up with this de figure that it was going tocost a hundred and 70 million pounds a year to run the nh s. And then in the first full year of operation, the actual cost was 402 million anwe it seems peanuts, doesn't it, to us now? But at the time, politically, that was explosive as well,. because it was, you know, coming out of the war, and theyre saying, how can
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