The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski

Author:Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

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NATIONALIZATION IS NOT ENOUGH

On July 5, 1948, the National Health Service Act, establishing the world’s first universal, public and free healthcare system, came into effect in the UK. Despite the Labour government’s passage of the act two years previously, the formal creation of the NHS remained deeply uncertain and a source of fractious debate until the moment of its arrival. In a speech to Parliament on February 9, 1948, Aneurin Bevan, the Labour minister for health, exhorted his colleagues:

I think it is a sad reflection that this great act, to which every party has made its contribution, in which every section of the community is vitally interested, should have so stormy a birth … We ought to take pride in the fact that, despite our financial and economic anxieties, we are still able to do the most civilized thing in the world—put the welfare of the sick in front of every other consideration.

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