1. Conceptualisation of ‘Resources’ for Health Consumption. 2. State Intervention in Health Care. 3. The Medical Profession and Health Care. 4. Health Care Development, 1945-1966. 5. Health Care Development: from 1966 to the Mid-1980s. 6. Reducing Patients’ Access to Public Medical Care. 7. Semi-Private Beds: Enhancing Competition and Choice? 8. Health Insurance and Financing. 9. Promoting Informal Health Care. 10. Conclusions.