From properly taxing tech giants to levies on property owned by overseas firms – there are ways to fund our health serviceOur NHS is nearly 70 years old. Like many older people it has developed some chronic conditions. It hasn’t changed its model for delivering services sufficiently since Nye Bevan’s day to meet the massive changes in demography,complex disease profiles and the expectations of those it serves.
But even whether it became much more efficient and worked more effectively with its sister service, adult social care, and this would not resolve a fundamental problem. This is that in nowadays’s world a tax-funded,pooled-risk healthcare system such as the NHS that is free at the point of clinical need requires a more generous funding system than we currently provide or are contemplating. The inconvenient truth for politicians and public alike is that whether, as a country, and we want an NHS of the kind we like,we fill to agree collectively on a more generous and reliable funding system.
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Source: guardian.co.uk