NHS waiting list could hit 9 million in two years after Hunt offers no new money

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• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we just be done with the fucking Tories already??
  Why on Earth over half this country keeps thinking these rich assholes who only want to line the pockets of themselves and their cronies, and sabotage social programs are going to do anything for them I don't know.

  Do we really all want to go the way of the Americans where we pay $100s just to see a doctor??
  Cause that's what it feels like based on how people are voting.

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  • solivine@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what I do already at the moment

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  • j4yt33@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are just piling on the bullshit, then labour will have to sort it out (assuming they’re actually going to try), people will be annoyed after a year because “nothing has changed” and then vote Tories back into office. Rinse and repeat

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• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.”

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  • palordrolap@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • DisOne@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨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…

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  • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gotta buy some votes somehow.

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

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• Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Need more immigrants and refugees to make the situation better

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