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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.

Paid Insider subscribers receive 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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