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New tax needed to fund NHS and care, says ex-minister

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    New tax needed to fund NHS and care, says ex-minister

    "A new tax is needed to ensure the UK has a properly funded health and social care system, doctor and ex-Conservative health minister Dan Poulter has said.

    The Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP told the Observer that difficulties in arranging social care for patients was having a major impact on hospitals.

    Raising National Insurance "offers one of the simplest ways forward", he said.

    The Department of Health said its plan to introduce a cap on care costs in England in 2020 had not changed.

    Mr Poulter stepped down from his Department of Health post last year and now works as an MP and a part-time doctor in the NHS.

    He told the Observer: "On the hospital wards I often see people who are medically fit to go home, but who are forced to stay in hospital because of difficulties arranging their social care package, or because of a lack of appropriate housing...

    "A long-term plan to ensure a properly funded and sustainable health and social care system is urgently required.""

    Source: New tax needed to fund NHS and care, says ex-minister - BBC News

    Why didn't he say so during election campaign???

    Bring on NHS Tax on payrolls: Employee and Employer ones, start low with 2% and slowly replace all NHS money with just that tax, which in no way the same as NICs, you've heard it on here first...

    #2
    I expect to see £100m of EU savings per week going to the NHS. However, that would still leave us miles behind what other countries spend.

    There is a massive opportunity for cost savings but the unions will stop most of those. The danger is we throw money at it for little benefit.

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      #3
      Originally posted by GB9 View Post
      I expect to see £100m of EU savings per week going to the NHS. However, that would still leave us miles behind what other countries spend.

      There is a massive opportunity for cost savings but the unions will stop most of those. The danger is we throw money at it for little benefit.
      The NHS had massive investment under Blairs Labour. Most it somehow ending up in the pockets of the staff. Funny that. Wonder how many of them vote Tory ?

      Privatise the NHS. Keep the principle 'free at the point of use' but just use the best quality suppliers at the cheapest rate.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Flashman View Post
        just use the best quality suppliers at the cheapest rate.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Flashman View Post
          The NHS had massive investment under Blairs Labour. Most it somehow ending up in the pockets of the staff. Funny that. Wonder how many of them vote Tory ?

          Privatise the NHS. Keep the principle 'free at the point of use' but just use the best quality suppliers at the cheapest rate.
          Because it's worked everywhere else so far
          The Chunt of Chunts.

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            #6
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            So nothing useful to add? The NHS is perfect. The staff are overworked and underpaid. All the waste is fully justifiable. There should be more. No efficiencies required. Vote Corbyn or Trotsky.

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              #7
              Originally posted by GB9 View Post
              So nothing useful to add? The NHS is perfect. The staff are overworked and underpaid. All the waste is fully justifiable. There should be more. No efficiencies required. Vote Corbyn or Trotsky.
              You can't have the best quality AND the cheapest at the same time, not in health industry, you cretin!

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                #8
                Originally posted by AtW View Post
                So nothing useful to add? The NHS is perfect. The staff are overworked and underpaid. All the waste is fully justifiable. There should be more. No efficiencies required. Vote Corbyn or Trotsky.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by GB9 View Post
                  So nothing useful to add? The NHS is perfect. The staff are overworked and underpaid. All the waste is fully justifiable. There should be more. No efficiencies required. Vote Corbyn or Trotsky.
                  Use the NHS much yourself, GB9?
                  "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                  - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                    #10
                    Not quite sure why people do not realise but
                    1. Money does not grow on trees
                    2. No matter how much money is poured into the NHS there will never be enough.

                    Why we have to come at the problem as simply a matter of pouring more cash into it is beyond me.
                    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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