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When Beveridge produced his report on Social Insurance and Allied Services in 1942, the proposed National Health Service took up about five pages of the three hundred page document. The main thrust of the report was about unemployment insurance but as he said 'the corollary of high benefits in disability are determined efforts by the state to reduce the number of cases for which benefit is needed [and] the individual should recognise the duty to be well and to cooperate in all steps which may lead to the diagnosis of disease in its early stages when it can be prevented.' Beveridge included general practice in 'domiciliary care' and argued that the contributing principle, i.e. national insurance, was a better alternative than means testing or taxation which might discourage 'responsible' use of the service. Beveridge argued that private practice was incompatible with the contributory principle because the scheme should be for 100% of the population
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| Book Title: Making Sense of The Red Book | ||