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Originally Posted by Carth
If pensioners in work did pay national insurance, it could be used to provide extra funding for the NHS, something the older generations would be more likely to benefit from. . . . oh excuse me for not realising that nobody gets ill until they're over 60, and then they all want nose jobs, boob jobs, gender realignment, and weekly treatment for being out of their faces on booze & drugs 
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The NHS is disportionately used by the elderly because people do by and large getting sicker as they get older.
Anyway this policy isn't going to happen, not least because no government will dare touch pensioners' benefits. Look what happened to the Tories at the last election.