National health under socialism or the B.M.A.? : A National Crisis
1930 1930 1930s 2 pages (4) A concession to the present constitution and control by vested interests of the National Health Insurance Scheme and its Committees and the approved Societies, which stand condemned by the last Royal Commission (which recommended the unification of all health services, th...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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(4) A concession to the present constitution and control by vested interests of the National Health Insurance Scheme and its Committees and the approved Societies, which stand condemned by the last Royal Commission (which recommended the unification of all health services, the abolition of Insurance Committees and self government by insured persons, who should administer the National Health Insurance Scheme themselves, according to the Majority Report); (5) Disproportionate payments to medical and allied workers for their services in comparison with the payment of the insured and other workers for their services. (6) An increased cost of contribution by the workers for the extension of medical benefits, etc., without a proportionate rise in wages; The warning of the evil effects of bureaucratic rule is seen in India to-day and should stir us from apathy to resistance to any government by a professional organisation, which is virtually unresisted, and by civil "servants" virtually uncontrolled by the State or the workers. We consider that medical science and authority should be confined solely to their special spheres and that acceptance of the British Medical Association proposals would be a victory for great anti-social forces and be non-socialistic, and we invite the I.L.P. (and L.P.) to take action at once and organise the workers for the socialisation of medicine; to formulate its plans for a national health programme and scheme; and to take all steps which will Impress the Government with the Independent Labour Party's disapproval of the B.M.A. proposals and the need for a bold socialist, Independent Labour and Labour Party, health policy in our time. 2
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