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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

And how long do you think the NHS is going to be viable?It’s unsustainable.

Why do you think I fight the neoliberal model. We have been going down the American route for years now (including New Labour's term in office). Its only unstable because its been deliberately made unstable.

It’ll have died on its arse by the end of the century.

It will of died on its arse long before that.

It’s inevitable with an ever rising population.The whole model was designed for there to be less need for it over time not more.
There’s only so far you can raise taxes and throw money at it before it outgrows the ability to fund it.
Then we’ll all be on some kind of insurance based system.We’re just not there yet.

Tax doesn’t pay for government expenditure. Obviously, there’s a relationship between the two but its an indirect one. Popular tabloids has convinced the masses that tax comes before spending which means if we don’t pay enough tax we simply can’t spend the money… not true. It’s a misconception that make us wrongly believe the NHS isn’t affordable because there’s not enough tax! Its also a popular myth that government spending must be constrained when in fact all government services can be paid for and maintained without tax and without the risk of inflation so long as the government continues reclaiming tax from the economy.
This means, regardless of a growing population, the government can simply fund the NHS according to its needs so long as it corrects inflation.

£1.5 billion has left the NHS and gone into the pockets of just 15 private companies linked to 23 Tory MPs and Lords, who were all able to vote for the Health and Social Care Act: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-nhs-contracts

What this government is doing is betraying the interests of its people.