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Health before the NHS in 1945.
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Health before the NHS in 1945. Not so long ago there was a time before the NHS when health care was something you didn't get so easily. Poor families would have to pay 121/2 -13p, which is the equivalent nowadays to £10, nowadays (unless you go privately) it costs nothing just to see a doctor. If you could afford to pay a doctor you had to find the money from somewhere or you were rich. This was a problem because the poor were probably more in need of health care than the rich yet they could not get the care they needed everytime. From the start of life parents couldn't afford a proper doctor to supervise a birth, and so some people would go through their whole lives never seeing a doctor. If you didn't get treatments for things like flu or diarrhoea a whole family could catch it and die...
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