• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why national insurance payments are being reduced in the latest budget whilst the NHS continues to deteriorate due to lack of funding.

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Hunt literally co-wrote a book on how to turn the NHS into a US-style system, and members of his family are prominent in private healthcare.

      Understand now?

    • DisOne@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      To nudge things closer to a long-term goal of abolishing the NHS? The Tories tried to prevent the NHS being created and have regularly attacked it ever since…

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Because the aim is to get to the point where they can say “The NHS clearly isn’t working so we need to introduce American-style health insurance to pay for increased staffing levels and improved services. Entirely coincidentally, my wife runs a health insurance business.”