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Blame the Tories (and the Blairites) - they are the ones underfunding the NHS. Since 2009 the NHS has had a cumulative underfunding of £322billion

So - the average salary in Germany is about €48K - and the basic health insurance deduction would be €3360 per annum - on top of that you play a further €720 for the nursing contribution - an extra €10 to fill a prescription, up to €280 for a stay in hospital (per family member), and I think it...

The Scandinavian 'model' pretty much went out the window with neo-liberalism - and the Nordic countries are not high tax economies and haven't been for some time

Is there not a further 3% 'nursing care contribution' as well, along with prescription co-payments, payments for hospital stays, payments for home help, payments for travel? And - if I am not mistaken there are also charges for vaccines, cancer screening under a certain age, IVF and...

Yes - the German model - excellent health service - and mandatory health insurance - please tell us how much it costs?

Because privatised health care is even worse - and we should know - Ireland has a hybrid part public part private health system. The NHS is one of the most precious things that Britain has - one of the few national health systems in the world - fund it properly, pay the staff properly, stop...

1. Rusty Maggie I did indicate above that the change to neo-liberalism did lead to economic growth - at least in its earliest stages (in fact that world economy was turning just as Thatcher was coming into power as the recession bottomed out in 1979). I would dispute your figure of 35% - if...

Food and clothing are significantly cheaper in real terms than 50 years ago - why - 1. Food is increasingly produced in huge ranches with large machinery - and are generally filled with chemicals to give them an increasingly longer shelf life. In 1800 it took 56 work hours to produce a acre of...

Of course the theory is bogus - it is a mechanism to drive down wages and increase profits. Only once in the last 50 odd years has a measure been taken in a capitalist context that brought inflation to a shuttering halt. That well-known Republican chancer Richard Nixon, in an effort to cut...

The 99% are and have been suffering declining living standards since the emergence of neo-liberalism in the late 1970s. The poorest 10% of people in Britain pay a higher effective tax rate than the richest 10%. The NHS doctors are not on strike for a pay increase - the are on strike for pay...

Let's be clear - wage rises DO NOT cause inflation. Inflation is the result of the drive for profits. Capitalism needs inflation to maximise profits and keep the good times rolling (for the 1%).