...demanded. This absurd. Every advance in medical science creates new needs that did not exist until a means of meeting them came into existence, or at least into the realm of the possible. INFINITY OF DEMAND There is virtually no limit to the amount of medical care an individual is capable...

...demand for all practical purposes is unlimited. The vulgar assumption is that there is a definahle amount of medical care 'needed', and that if that...techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged." p. 26 "There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public...

...medical care 'needed', and that if that 'need' was met, no more would be demanded. This is absurd. Kvery advance in medical science creates new needs that...techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged." p. 26 "There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public...

...SUPPLY AND DEMAND "Medical care under the National Health Service is rendered free to the consumer st the point of consumption - " p. 26 "Consequently supply...techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged." p. 26 "There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public...

...resources are limited, both theoretically and in practice at any given time, or the demand is uzilimited, supply has to be rationed by means other than price....techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged." p. 26 "There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public...

...demand only after a more or less substantial interval of time." p. 24. SUPPLY AND DEMAND "(In NHS), supply and demand are not kept in balance by price....techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged." p. 26. "There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public...

...certainly unproclaimed — as such, are among the major irritant ingredients in Medicine and Politics. Common thought and parlance tend to conceal or deny...techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged. The National Health Service, then, must and does apply covert rationing...

...Common thought and parlance tend to conceal or deny the fact that demand for all practical purposes ^unlimited. The vulgar assumption is that there is...techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged. The National Health Service, then, must and does apply covert rationing...

...any given time, while demand is unlimited, supply had to be rationed by means other than price.... Common thought and parlance tend to conceal or deny...existence, or at least into the realm of the possible.... The infinity of demand There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public provision exceptionally...

...develop, produce and supply those services. In 1966, Enoch Powell, the Minister of Health, noted that 'every advance in medical science creates new needs...until the means of meeting them came into existence or into the realms of the possible'. Do we actually want the outpourings of the modern medical machine...