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

...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...horizon of 'need' for medical care is suddenly enlarged. The National Health Service, then, must and does apply covert rationing devices in order to limit demand...

...meeting them came into existence, or at least into the realm of the possible.... The infinity of demand There is a characteristic of medical care that makes...of being limited in a precise and intelligible way. This can be made clear by comparison with, for instance, education. The potential demand for education...

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