How to Pay For The National Health Service

Chester, T.E. (1966). How Healthy is the N.H.S ? District Bank Review, September.

Health Services Financing, B.M.A. 1970, pp. 184-5.

Hill, T.P. (1969) Too Much Consumption. National Westminster Quarterly Review.

Fein, Rashi (1970). The Case for National Health Insurance, Saturday Review, 22 August.

Cooper, M.H. and Culyer, A.J. (1971) An Economic Survey of the Nature and intent of the British National Health Service, Social Science and Medicines, February.

Cooper, M.H. (1971). A Statistical Study of Pharmaceutical Prices in Nine Countries—1970, N.E.D.O. Paper, February.

Cooper, M.H. and Culyer, A.J. (1970). An Economic Assessment of Some Aspects of the Operation of the N.H.S., Health Services Financing , B.M.A. pp. 187-250.

Trussell, R.E. and Van Dyke, F. (1962) Prepayment for Medical and Dental Care in New York State, Columbia University .

Survey quoted in Ribicoff, A. (1970). The Healthiest Nation Myth. Saturday Review. 22 August.

Quoted in Ribicoff op. cit.

Health Services Financing, p. 147.

Health Services Financing, pp. 147-86.

A monopsony is a consumer so large that it can exert pressure on price merely by the threat of withdrawing its custom.

Health Services Financing, p. 156.

Present State and Future Needs of General Practice ( 1970). Royal College of Gen. Pract.

See for example the fate of fee-per-item of service areas under the National Health Insurance Act 1941. Lees, D.S. and Cooper, M.H. (1964). Fee per Item of Service. Medical Care, 2, No. 3.

Meredith, J. et al. (1968). Hostels in Hospitals .

See Logan, F.R.L. et al. (1970). Paying for Medical Care. Lancet. 26 September.

Seldon, A. Private Expenditure as a Source of Finance for Medical Care in Britain , Health Services Financing, p. 278.

Alternatively the N.H.S. patient could be charged his 'hotel' costs.