“…That attack is: (1) an attempt to reduce the proposal for a national health service to an extension of the "panel"; (2) an attempt to destroy the whole structure of local government; (3) an attempt to preserve the privileges of the high-income specialists by giving the voluntary hospitals a position of predominance in all parts of the health service; (4) an attempt to set up a medical bureaucracy which would introduce delay at every point, making progress even in the provision of hospitals and specialists virtually impossible; (5) the relegation of Health Centres to a long period of small-scale experiments which the B.M.A. would be in a position to sabotage. …”

“…The great Tory slogan against Socialism is that it means a swollen bureaucracy, with remote control of industrial and private life by Whitehall. …”

“…They fear political influence in medical matters. They fear bureaucracy and red tape. They fear subservience of the clinical to the administrative. …”