On 5th July 1948 the National Health Service was established in the United Kingdom. Britain was the first western country to offer free at the point of use medical care to the whole population.[1] Seventy-five years on the NHS continues …| History of government
Winston Churchill, the convenient villain in many recent historical accounts, has a new role. He’s now the steadfast opponent of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), founded by Nye Bevan in 1948. Churchill, goes the refrain, didn’t care about the health of Britons. (As WSC replied to a Bevan rant in 1944: “I should think it was hardly possible to state the opposite of the truth with more precision.”) The post Gotcher in the Nye: Winston Churchill on the National Health appear...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn’t that actually make life better? “The initial impetus for SO was an attempt to alleviate the unsustainable pressures exerted by an ageing population. Soon after the SO implementation, however, other major benefits emerged. By contrast, none of the potential problems predicted by critics of the scheme has materialised. There were very few cases of SO participants changing their mind. Although (or perhaps because) such cases received wide publ...| Arcfinity