 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1970 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health - 1975 - 478 pages
...SUPPLY AND DEMAND "Medical care under the National Health Service is rendered free to the consumer at the point of consumption — " p. 26 "Consequently...techniques of grafting, the horizon of 'need' for medical cure is suddenly enlarged." p. 26 "There is a characteristic of medical care that makes its public... | |
 | Margaret Jones, Rodney Lowe - 2002 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | David Kernick - 2002 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1970 - 1740 pages
...unproclaimed as such, are among the major irritant inPedients in Medicine and Politics. P. 26. rr* is no more would be demanded. This is absurd. Every advance...For every heart-lung machine or artificial kidney in ojieration there must be many times that number <>f cast* to which the treatment would be applicable.... | |
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Common thought and parlance tend to conceal or deny the fact that demand for all practical purposes is unlimited. The vulgar assumption is that there is a definable amount of medical care 'needed', and that if that 'need' was met, no more would be demanded.... 