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Originally Posted by Damien
IIRC The NHS is run on a lower budget than some equivalent systems, although a lot of them have many things contributing to that budget including top-up payments from users of the service.
Healthcare is expensive.
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Agreed. The trouble is that this is a difficult sell to the electorate and there are still plenty of politicians around who will trot out the voter-friendly line lines that "the NHS has enough money, it just needs to be more efficient" or "the money is spent on admin and managers, not healthcare staff".
Yes, it can always be more efficient but the fundamental funding issue remains and no party seems to be willing to tackle this, for fear of making themselves unelectable.