>> - improve management, cut waste, quickly
First identify the waste; are all agreed a particular spend is waste?
>> - charge for services - eg: £25 for a GP visit could raise £7-8bn pa,
>> £100 for A&E £2.5bn
>> - apply to all - not like prescriptions where 90% are issued free
The weekly living cost rate for a single person on subsistence benefits is £77/week. A third of that for a GP visit?
Are you real?
>> - increase inheritance tax to recover care costs - taxpayers effectively fund larger legacies
>> - sort out social care - it has been a shambles for decades.
Now you're talking. Framing the debate around Income Tax is a distortion.
>> The NHS "free at the point of delivery" may have been a worthy intent 75
>> years ago - the world has changed - services and funding need to be radically
>> overhauled.
What does the alternative, after overhaul, actually look like?
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