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"We have had 50 years of very, very long waiting lists."
Lord Warner, Labour government health minister, 22nd April 2005 at a meeting organised by the British Orthopadic Directors Society, reported in the Daily Telegraph
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"A splendid book. It's a devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. Demonstrates how attempts to achieve good intentions have led to horrible results -- increasing crime and violence, worsened conditions of the very poor, an extraordinary deterioration in the quality and character of British life.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winner.
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Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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Synopsis of The Welfare State We’re In. ‘Britain would have been better off without the welfare state’ That is the startling claim at the core of this controversial book. Marshalling an extraordinary range of evidence and calling a kaleidoscopic cast … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
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