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Originally Posted by Livia

The funding the NHS gets is not managed properly. That's not to say they couldn't do with more cash... I'd just like to be assured it wasn't going to be mismanaged. The NHS haemorrhages money. Similarly, if you're concerned about adult social care and the fact that many hard-working, working class people who've saved and paid into a pension are now helping to fund the feckless and the workshy to get it for nothing..... look at the taxi bill your local adult services pays. It'll be staggering.

The NHS is one of the most efficient healthcare services in the world, though, and FAR more effecient than - for example - the insurance-based US system. This has been written about so many times that I have to assume anyone who still thinks that the NHS is (comparatively) inefficient is simply parroting what they've heard, rather than speaking from any knowledge of the actual running costs.

I also find it somewhat hilarious that most people would recoil in horror at the idea of their taxes being raised by, say, £30 a month to directly fund the NHS... clearly having absolutely no idea how much private health insurance would be costing them if the NHS was gone (hint: it's a LOT more than £30 a month).