Abstract

The Right to Health

Great Britain's National Health Service has been in operation for almost a year-not long in the history of a service which will take a generation to build but long enough to give the people confidence that it is moving along in the right direction. The service has grown up amid impassioned debate. Parliament, the British Medical Association, the body of progressive doctors who have campaigned for it year in and year out-all these and many others have had their say. The coincidence that national health insurance is for the first time being seriously considered in the U.S. has brought a veritable spate of American comment, informed and uninformed. Nearly everyone here-every political party without exception-has rallied to the support of the service as a permanent feature of British life.