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The Edition: Hospital pass

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The Health Service, I Think, Has Always Been on the Edge of Crisis

i think the n h s has always had big issues in terms of starving and financing because of the way it was set up. And menit was set up without enough doctors and nurses, and very rapidly became hugely reliant on immigrant labor. It was also set up on a false assumption that actually a universal health service would, in time, and a not particularly long period of time, cost less. So these problems ere, i mean, it is a little bit like reading ecclesiastes as nothing new under the sun in the ichest.

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