Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/314008 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IEA Discussion Paper No. 108
Publisher: 
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), London
Abstract: 
In 1980, an article in The Times predicted that over the next five years, the National Health Service (NHS) would be privatised step by step, and the UK would drift towards an American-type healthcare system. This obviously did not happen. But that has not stopped people from repeatedly making the same prediction ever since. Conspiracy theories about 'secret plans' to dismantle and privatise the NHS are a fixed feature of British politics. The recurring moral panics around the NHS are not just a harmless eccentricity. They have a huge opportunity cost: the crowding out of any sensible discussion of health reform.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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