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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
our health system is far from the best, dont know whos making those claims.
Factor in that uk workers also work the longest hours in the developed world.
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We don't work close to the longest hours in the developed world.
I thought our health system must be the best given we're the only ones who do it this way, everyone employed by the government, free at point of delivery and funded progressively from general taxation.
I mean people talk about the beloved NHS and how it must not be changed, I thought they would be doing so because it's so good, surely?
If you are concerned about NHS funding the obvious solution is to advocate a change in its funding method from the current progressive system to a social insurance based system in common with everywhere else.
The downside to this is, of course, that it means more people paying more for their healthcare and would ruin arguments over progressiveness of taxation when general taxation is no longer funding healthcare. The upside obviously is that it gives the NHS wider access to funding and allows for the 'risk' involved in insuring the health of the population to be effectively spread more rather than having the costs largely borne by those who not only make less use of it but also pay tax on employer provided healthcare schemes, thus paying for reducing load on the health service further.
In summary if you want the NHS funded better write to your MP asking them why we have health care provided and funded as it was in communist eastern Europe rather than the social insurance found universally elsewhere.