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> We currently have a Conservative government, and they hate the NHS. while somehow simultaneously providing it with the most amount of funding ever: https://
by kmlx 3y ago
> We currently have a Conservative government, and they hate the NHS.
while somehow simultaneously providing it with the most amount of funding ever:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expenditure-as-a-share-of-gdp-in-the-united-kingdom/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/632289/nhs-england-health-spending-in-real-terms/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/632289/nhs-england-healt...
but even with these colossal amounts, it’s still underfunded according to the BMA:
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/funding/health-funding-data-analysis https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...
- red-iron-pine 3y agotheir primary voting bloc is aging boomers. who are fatter than ever, and with healthcare demands to match. W Bush did the same thing with the Medicare expansion -- somehow the anti-Socialist party expanded social welfare benefits... to the one group that would vote for them.