“…BEVAN said that they were hoping to break down the evils of the competitive element by (1) salaried service (2) a ceiling, (3) diminished capitation rate as the panel increased, so that the inducement to get additional patients declined as the panel became too large for the doctors capabilities, (4) abolition of the sale and purchase of practices. …”

“…Remuneration Remuneration is to take the form of a combination of capitation fees and fixed part salary. When the necessary regulations come to be drafted, we are of the opinion that provision should be made for enabling a doctor to be paid wholly by salary if he so wishes. …”

“…Cause of Poverty Per capital deficiency of weekly income. s. d. 1. …”

“…We have seen that the problem of dealing with poverty is to provide everyone with a good home, first class education, good food, and other necessities. Now, under capitalism, this cannot be done on an adequate scale; the answer is simply "We can't afford it" — a cry which has been raised already even in the face of such moderate reforms as the new Education Act and the proposal for a National Health Service. …”

“…Well may the Tory Press praise him ; they know well enough that no modest reformist programme of piecemeal nationalisation, concentrated mainly on semi-bankrupt industries, accompanied by full compensation for the descendants of generations of economic parasites, can threaten the inner stronghold of capitalism. Moreover, because such nationalisation takes place within a capitalist framework and is concerned 2 15X/2/98/21…”

“…Where there is no industrial democracy the workers' negative "fear" motive under capitalism is not replaced by the positive motives of socialism. …”

“…If it could be assumed for one moment that American Capitalism has become internationally minded and prepared to accept in future payment in goods from debtor-nations, Bretton Woods might be a step forward. …”

“…Dear Friend, November 7 marks the first anniversary of the attack launched by Franco against the capital of Spain, an attack which he boasted would assure his forces a speedy and conclusive victory. …”

“…It is clear to the Association, and strongly supported by the expert advice it has received, that the adoption of the proposal in the White Paper to compensate for loss of capital value of their practices those practitioners who enter Health Centre practice, would of itself affect adversely the capital value of all general practices. …”

“…The State should make equitable provision for the security of tenure and superannuation rights of all the members of the State Medical Service ; and it will be necessary for reasons of equity to devise a scheme of compensation for the value of doctors' practices in which doctors have invested capital. Only when the doctor is thus paid will it be possible to set him free to do his best work in the wide field of preventive, as well as curative, medicine. …”

“…I understand that some of the baths, together with fine country may come on the market, I am making enquiries, and if the figure given me is correct, provided that certain technical difficulties can be got over, it ought not to be difficult to raise the necessary capital. Here is an opportunity for a most important additional service to be given to the workder [worker] of this country. …”

“…They also depend for their successful application on the fact that capitalism after the war will be able to solve the problem, which so far it has never been able to solve, viz., economic crisis, and we shall also point out this fact so that there can be no illusion spread amongst the working-class. …”

“…Doctors will be paid partly by salary and partly by capitation fees. To produce a fairer distribution, the Bill proposes that doctors in the less popular areas shall receive a higher part-salary, and also that the number of new medical appointments in areas already adequately supplied with doctors should be restricted. …”

“…It is no secret that capitalism is the very core, the heart of Nazism and Fascism, Surely, then, our immediate concern is that its destruction and downfall be hastened and worked for ; (which will not be achieved if we are satisfied to compromise!) …”

“…It is no secret that capitalism is the very core, the heart of Nazism and Fascism, Surely, then, our immediate concern is that its destruction and downfall be hastened and worked for ; (which will not be achieved if we are satisfied to compromise!) …”

“…If the voluntary system fails to keep existing hospital accommodation going, it cannot be expected to meet the capital outlay and the annual expenditure for the necessary increased accommodation. …”

“…Yet, because of the individuality - the "small trader" instinct - of doctors, because also of the capital cost of such buildings, nothing has been done. …”

“…The guns and bombs of General Franco and his Fascist backers have killed many men, women and children; have destroyed cities and villages; and even parts of the capital; but they have raised the spirit of a great people. …”

“…And behind them the whole machine of Fascism which capitalism has made as its last defence in Europe. This same price of death will have to be paid until the death-dealers are themselves destroyed. …”

“…It is, however, the intention that remuneration should take the form of a combination of fixed part-salary and of capitation fees, the latter varying with the number of persons whose care is undertaken by each doctor and being so graduated as to diminish in scale as the total number of patients rises. …”