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Should Health Screening Be Private?
  1. Dr John Fletcher
  1. Research Fellow, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford

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    Jim Thornton, London, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1999, 65 pages, £5.

    Jim Thornton gives us in this book a range of arguments against the state funding of nearly all adult health-related screening programmes but for most screening programmes for children and the handicapped. He justifies the first on the basis of consumers being the best judges of their health preferences and adult screening being largely ineffective. He justifies the second on the basis of the belief that neonatal and childhood screening is more effective and that the state has a duty to decide on behalf of those who are not competent …

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