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Originally Posted by Chris
Not so sure about that - it could be regressive. How would you implement it?
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A compulsory and progressive premium for health care purposes. Kinda how National Insurance is
supposed to be.
The point is to ring fence both the income and outgoings of the health service to avoid it being used as a political football and to keep its' income consistent rather than it having gobs of money thrown at it under one government then withdrawn by another to balance the books.
This keeps it at a medium level and avoids any sharp adjustments in funding as such adjustments would be rather easily apparent to tax payers while at the moment it can be hidden to an extent through borrowing
