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The radical experiment: transforming Britain's national health system to interlocking markets. 1992

D W Light

The reforms of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) are the most sweeping attempt in the world to transform a social system of administered services into a system of buyers and sellers. At issue are basic questions about the nature of human behavior and the nature of inefficiency. This article outlines the NHS and its problems, shows how narrow and misleading the market-based diagnosis was of those problems, explains the reforms, and assesses their likely impact.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008389	Marketing of Health Services	Application of marketing principles and techniques to maximize the use of health care resources.	Health Services Marketing,Marketing Services, Health,Marketing, Health Services,Services, Health Marketing,Health Marketing Service,Health Marketing Services,Marketing Service, Health
D006113	United Kingdom	Country in northwestern Europe including Great Britain and the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland, located between the North Sea and north Atlantic Ocean. The capital is London.	Great Britain,Isle of Man
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013222	State Medicine	A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.	National Health Service, British,Socialized Medicine,British Health Service, National,British National Health Service,Medicine, Socialized,Medicine, State,Service, British National Health