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Actually it has https://imgur.com/WrTXfQS https://imgur.com/WrTXfQS From 1970 the amount of money the UK spent on healthcare per capita bobbed kept bobbing ar
by iso1631 7y ago
Actually it has
https://imgur.com/WrTXfQS https://imgur.com/WrTXfQS
From 1970 the amount of money the UK spent on healthcare per capita bobbed kept bobbing around between 90% and 100% of 1970 levels (when adjusted for healthcare inflation of all G7 countries) until 1992. There was then a slight increase until 1998, large increases until 2004, then it dropped until 2012. It jumped massively in 2013, then dropped slightly in 2014, remaining steady through 2017.
Since the 2007 financial crash, UK health funding dropped in 9 years, and increased in 3 years
(figures from OECD total health spending per country)
- monoclechris 7y agoPlease re-read my statement and compare it to your claim.
- iso1631 7y agoYou said "The UK has never reduced NHS funding in real terms year on year" I have shown how it has, 9 times in the last 12 years.
- monoclechris 7y agoI made no reference to anything per capita.
- drewstiff 7y agoSo you're saying that government investment in the NHS has refused to keep pace with the population increase, when both the investment requirements and the taxation income can be assumed to be reasonably proportional to population size? Seems like either incompetence or malevolence to me. Either way, yes you are 'technically correct' that you didn't mention per capita. Hope that gives you the warm fuzzy feeling you're looking for. Well done!