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Article #184Re: ASA investigates Scottish Executive 'abuse' advertisements
From: Ian Johnston
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:42
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:42
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:48:36, "Ken Johnson" <kenneth.johnson.NO@SPAMblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: : : "M Holmes" <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message : news:aa91ea$ipq$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk... : : > We could spend all of the GDP on the NHS and there'd still : > be excess demand at zero price unless we limited services : > or queued by time. : : I don't understand economics. Surely the maximum amount of health service : demanded is something to do with the number of ill people, isn't it? The trouble is that the definition of "ill" changes. How far would one have got forty years ago if one had demanded the right to have one's penis cut off on the grounds of vague feelings of unhappiness with life? Ian
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