Arguing that the state should establish a ‘national health service for the prevention and comprehensive treatment available to all members of the community’, Beveridge understood the political implications of his proposals. Prior to the paper’s publication on 1 December 1942, he told the Daily Telegraph that his proposals would take Britain ‘. . . half-way to Moscow’ (Timmins).Significantly, after World War II two papers marked ‘secret’ and providing a detailed commentary on Beveridge’s plan were found in Hitler’s bunker. One ordered that publicity should be avoided but, if mentioned, the report should be used as ‘. . . obvious proof that our enemies are taking over national-socialist ideas’. The other provided an official assessment of the plans as no ‘botch-up’: ‘a consistent system . . . of remarkable simplicity . . . superior to the current German social insurance in almost all points’.
PS: Hitler reivindicava direitos de autor sobre o NHS. Ler em: Towards a Liberal Utopia.
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