Quote Originally Posted by Philippus Flavius Homovallumus View Post
You say the NHS has had a 15% cut in real-terms in the last five years? Well, the NHS had massive cash injections during the Blair years and it didn't perform much better then - so just throwing money at the problem won't help. Every other department has received bigger cuts, cuts which have resulted in job losses amongst other things, and we're still running a deficit. The NHS has been ring-fenced for a long time, a practice with ideological motives, not practical ones.
Yet our funding based on GDP is decreasing further, lower than countries such as Greece and Slovenia. We are getting a very good healthcare service for what we are paying, but if we want it to be the best, you need to actually invest in it, especially with a growing and aging population, rather than cutting it, closing beds and units. This makes the costs even higher, because patients have to use private hospital beds. The cost difference for these beds are roughly treated in NHS £300~ per night, compared to Private £700~. Big American healthchains such as Acadia are buying up local private healthcare providers to cash in on the opportunities.

But I guess you are correct. I am guessing your support for 'further austerity', further cuts to corporation tax is the solution, renewing trident even though it fails its testing, and the mass selling/privatisation of our infrastructure to French and China, even though it hasn't worked and the countries debt has got worst, not better, in the last 10 years.