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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 750245" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>The NHS isn't that bad!</p><p>The way it is funded is!</p><p>The tax system has change dramatically and the expenditure has multiplied multi-fold. Originally set up and run on National Health Insurance. Because most of the country was working. The politicians changed the way it was paid for because the business community (and very rich) were screaming for it to be changed and the lost revenue from that system impacted so much on the funding. Tax was diverted from the NHS to income tax rebates. This has happened as every government has come in for about the last 20 years.</p><p> So the cuts came in restricting service, accessibility, standards. </p><p>There is an explosion of private healthcare as big business demanded immediate care. Hence the likes of BUPA. We have two local BUPA hospitals in Merseyside. There is a crisis of care in local NHS hospitals during this winter. One of these BUPA hospitals was closed for two weeks over Christmas and new year!! For the benefit of staff holidays.!</p><p>There is an undercurrent of misrepresentation abound in the newspapers and the media about how the NHS is failing! It is NOT the staff, it is the lack of staff in the front line. How can waiting time for an ambulance be over half an hour because they are all trying to get patients into hospital! Crazy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 750245, member: 85785"] The NHS isn't that bad! The way it is funded is! The tax system has change dramatically and the expenditure has multiplied multi-fold. Originally set up and run on National Health Insurance. Because most of the country was working. The politicians changed the way it was paid for because the business community (and very rich) were screaming for it to be changed and the lost revenue from that system impacted so much on the funding. Tax was diverted from the NHS to income tax rebates. This has happened as every government has come in for about the last 20 years. So the cuts came in restricting service, accessibility, standards. There is an explosion of private healthcare as big business demanded immediate care. Hence the likes of BUPA. We have two local BUPA hospitals in Merseyside. There is a crisis of care in local NHS hospitals during this winter. One of these BUPA hospitals was closed for two weeks over Christmas and new year!! For the benefit of staff holidays.! There is an undercurrent of misrepresentation abound in the newspapers and the media about how the NHS is failing! It is NOT the staff, it is the lack of staff in the front line. How can waiting time for an ambulance be over half an hour because they are all trying to get patients into hospital! Crazy! [/QUOTE]
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