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Needs, supply and demand for health care by elderly people in the NHS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2003
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It is often said that the demand for health care is growing inexorably in the UK, so that the NHS is constantly struggling to keep up. The dilemma was most famously put by Enoch Powell, who said that any health service faces the problem of infinite demand meeting finite resources. This was an economist's view, which suggests that anything that is free will be demanded infinitely.
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