Sissons | IMGpapers 1968

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Inadequacies and growing crisis in the NHS were partially musked until the economic crisis took a hand. As the boom began to slow profits drifted downwards. The bottom fell out of the state's pot of gold.

The share of profits in the total value added of industrial and commer cial companies fell from 15% in 1964, 1010% in 1970, and then collapsed to 45 in 1974, In the meantime the pubbe sector deficit has steadily grown from 22% billion in 1972-73 until in 1974-75 it rose to L6.3 billion (Inprecor No 16/17), Next year the situation will deteriorate even further!

In the Labour Government's White Paper on public expenditure, Denis Healey reckons that public spending will total E43 billion, which is about half of the total British gross national product. The money to tund this sector can either come from profits which as we have seen are falling, or be borrowed, or be taken from the working class through cuts in living standards, higher taxation, and reductions in public spending. The aim of both the Tory and Labour Gover nments has been to shift the onus of paying for the social services onto the backs of the working class.

The public expenditure White Paper is the last in a long line of documents attempting to solve the Defend the NHS Private Practice ·#***************************** 'antisociai wages.' is buttered. The expenditure on that police, the Special Patrol Group und the courts. will increase rapidly. Over A policeman's lot may not 'be a

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Private the hotel for woalthy tourists COR-AU-VIN OR The cut-backs in spending in the NatMedicine is busy buying up post London hotels for conversion as private hospitals. Last week BBC' Midumek programme focussed its cameras on one London hotel which is converting the top two floors inta a private hospital whilst keeping the rest of A dilemma, not yet solved-but no doubt ingenuity will conquer-is how to get the bodles of dead patients out without offanding the guests. One idea floated is to keep the bodies in cold storage until the dead of night when they can be discreetly removed.

Our resident cartoonist makes a suggestion on where to keep ther and how the deceased rich might be put to some use after