"It's all f****** lies, it's all f****** lies"!!!

[Doggy Styles]

No, but NIC paid by employee and employer should be able to fund some of those drugs for sure - if anything having prescription charges invalidates promise of free NHS: people who already pay taxes to keep it going should not be paying anything extra when they finally have to use said services.

I thought NICs were to fund pensions and welfare, not the NHS.

[Bunk]

I thought NICs were to fund pensions and welfare, not the NHS.

I thought it all went into a big pot with the rest of the tax. Then they take what they want and if there's anything left they spend it on us

[AtW]

I thought NICs were to fund pensions and welfare, not the NHS.

"Gordon Brown has announced the first increase in direct taxation since he became chancellor five years ago.

In a big political gamble, he will use a 1p in the pound hike in National Insurance contributions to pay for the UK's biggest ever increase in health service funding.

The increase on both employer and employee NI contributions will go towards a £40bn rise in NHS spending over five years."

Source: BBC NEWS | Politics | Tax bills rise to boost NHS

They got elected 2nd time on that platform - saving NHS.

[Doggy Styles]

"Gordon Brown has announced the first increase in direct taxation since he became chancellor five years ago.

In a big political gamble, he will use a 1p in the pound hike in National Insurance contributions to pay for the UK's biggest ever increase in health service funding.

The increase on both employer and employee NI contributions will go towards a £40bn rise in NHS spending over five years."

Source: BBC NEWS | Politics | Tax bills rise to boost NHS

They got elected 2nd time on that platform - saving NHS.

And if you remember it was pointed out at the time that NICs were not for the NHS, it was a tactic by Brown to avoid putting up income tax.

Form the government's own webtulipe: "You pay National Insurance contributions to build up your entitlement to certain state benefits, including the State Pension."

However, as Bunk says it all ends up in one pot anyway.