Current British Program '89 5.8% GDP
* Doctors assigned a certain number of patients
* Doctors paid a flat salary
* Doctors' office clogged by hypochondriacs, causing waiting
lines up to 15 patients
* Charge for prescriptions, but still cheaper than market
prices.
Comment from London "System under stress. Began good.
Now calls on system more expensive to the country than
antici-
pated. Happy to have service, nobody would want to go back to
old
system."
Comment from London physician/professor "Your draft
looks really very good and well argued to me. The general
public
should certainly approve.
"To me the basic argument for National Health Service
goes like this:
Everyone has health needs, the costs to an individual could
be very high so all reasonable people will take out insurance.
But what happens to those whose insurance is exceeded, to
those too poor or even too indigent to take insurance.
We can't let them rot!
It follows that everyone should have insurance nationally
with everyone's contributions means tested.
Rather than duplicate means testing, use the tax system which
is at least an attempt at a fair means testing system.
Can I also add that our NHS, despite its problems is still
supported by about 95% of doctors and near 100% of the
population
(including me and all my professional colleagues.)
The argument today is about organization, not the basic prin-
ciple."
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