The second is to cut benefits many states want to stop covering spectacles and dental care.
In 1951 Bevan, by now the labour minister, resigned from the cabinet when it voted to bring in charges for dental care, spectacles and prescriptions.
Services were scaled back and charges introduced for the likes of dental care, spectacles and prescriptions.
But the spectacle of the health care bill lays bare the difficulty of any party implementing a coherent program, or even of implementing the most watered down of programs.
Retaliation should be labeled "Made for children and non-English speakers," meaning that the action is big, but the story, acting, and characters are lame and simplistic since kids and foreign viewers reading subtitles and looking for Hollywood spectacle supposedly won't care, and the cast seems to be chosen more for international box office appeal than performing talent.
Mr Taibbi was born with his hair that way; Mr Klein's hair is usually neatly combed, but has finally ignited in despair at the spectacle of inadequate health-care legislation emerging, or not, from the 111th Congress.
The creators of "Matt & Ben," with their fond but pointed sendup of celebrity overload, understand that while we're insatiably fascinated by stars and their bizarre spectacles, we don't care in any profound sense.
"Don't make the perfect the enemy of the better," says the President and congressional insiders when confronted with the sorry spectacle of a health-care bill whose scope and ambition continue to shrink, and whose long-term costs to typical Americans continue to grow.
1948: Prescriptions, dental care and spectacles are all provided free on the NHS.
Private services follow a pattern of private ophthalmology and private manufacture, import/export, wholesale/retail distribution of spectacles and other eye care appliances and equipment.
