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?
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lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 7 months 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 7 months ago
DisOne@lemm.ee 7 months 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@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 7 months ago
Gotta buy some votes somehow.
The freeze in tax bands more than makes up for the cuts.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 months 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.”