• lazynooblet
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    251 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.

    • Hossenfeffer
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      431 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.”

    • palordrolap
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      281 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      171 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…

    • @tankplanker
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      161 year ago

      Intentional defunding of the NHS as others have mentioned while providing a bribe to the people who don’t notice that they are considerably worse off under this chancellor let alone the multitude of chancellors up to and including Osbourne.

      Personally I was surprised that they didn’t do some income tax shuffle instead so it could benefit pensioners as well.

    • ThenThreeMore
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      31 year ago

      Gotta buy some votes somehow.

      The freeze in tax bands more than makes up for the cuts.