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British ¡Afuera! #1 - NHS and National Pay Scales

Afuera and 'afueritas' in the NHS

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British ¡Afuera! is a new series of pieces applying the principles of the IEA’s ‘Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes’ and Argentinian ¡Afuera! to Britain today.

Read Kristian Niemietz’s introductory piece explaining the project here.

As a paid Insider subscriber you have exclusive early access to this: part one, on the NHS and national pay scales.

In my IEA Discussion Paper The Denationalisation of Healthcare. How to replace the NHS with a social health insurance model, I presented a broad-strokes plan for ‘afuera-ing’ the NHS as a whole.

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