Cascade Of Medicine Makes Mr. Bevan Shudder
Received Thursdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 17. "I shudder To tiiink of the ceaseless easeado of lnedicine wliich is pouring down British throats at the present time. I wish I maihi believe that its efficacy was epuni to the eredulity with. which it is being swallowed, " Mr. Aneurin Bevan tohi Indian students at London I'niversity. He replied to the "people wlio assail the national health serviee on the ground that it is frightfullv expensive," by" saying: "Uf course it is expensive. ' ; But it was a mistake to be too much impressed by the story that the serviee imposed a great additional burden on Brifish economv. It was not so much a new expenditure as a substituted expenditure. "I estimate that the British people were 'speinling on their private aej count bei'ore the serviee came into ! existence, between £250,000,000 and £300,000,00!) yearly. Indeed vou have only to consider what 50,000,0*00 people would be spending iu chemists ' sliops. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1949, Page 5
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