Visitors To Britain Will Get Free Medical Benefits
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Received Thursday, 11 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 19. An attempt to make overseas visitors in Britain pay for treatment received under the free national health service failed in the House of Commons tonight. The Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, described the move as "one ?'of the' ahti-fofeign 'Coffi- ' plexes that insular parties like the Conservative Party can stir from time to time." The former Conservative Minister of Health, Mr. Walter Elliot, had complained that treatment was being given to people who marde no contribution to the health scheme. A large number of people from the United States were insured and were perfectly able to pay a charge. Mr. Elliot suggesved that visitors not normally resident in Britain should pay. Mr. Bevan said it amazed him that it should be assumed that there was something wrong in visitors being treated free if they felt sick.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 October 1949, Page 5
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