00:00I want you to go and find out.
00:05Find out as much as you can about Beveridge and his plan and what it means today.
00:11The security plan in my report will deal with want.
00:15The plan for social security has the abolition of want as its aim.
00:21But want is only one of the five giants on the road.
00:25The others are disease, squalor, idleness and ignorance.
00:36The National Health Service Bill does involve making the healing profession no longer a business but a service to humanity.
00:46It is an excellent bill.
00:50But it is as well to keep in mind that a public undertaking of this magnitude is big business.
01:05It touches trade and industry at a hundred sensitive points.
01:14It's the machinery that's diseased.
01:17It's the system that's diseased.
01:21It's got the confusion disease, the reorganisation disease.
01:25And it has become infected with the cancer of profit.
01:32And no amount of disinfectant will help.
01:36Surgery is required.
01:38It's such a very, very good business.
01:42Beware of the harpies.
01:48Beware of the innumerable harpies who batten on to the sick.
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