Summary

Scene Seventeen takes place in the Cabinet Office in 1946. Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison demands that Nye reveal his plans for his health bill before it is put to a vote before cabinet. Nye tells him that he plans to create a National Health Service, modeled on the way the Medical Aid Society worked in his hometown of Tredegar. Everyone would pay in a certain amount based on how much they earned, but access to treatment and medicine would be available to everyone based on what they needed, regardless of how much they’d paid in, or whether they’d paid at all. For the first time in Britain, universal healthcare would be provided to everyone free at the point of use, ending the possibility that anyone would miss out on essential care because they could not afford to pay for...