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"The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something..." — Ash Sarkar

The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine.
Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar Journalist • British
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