If you might see that someone could read your post slightly differently to how you intended, without getting your knickers in a twist, then maybe you could see why I posted what I did. I've checked back, nothing particularly silly either way to be honest, all I did was justify why I read your...
Completely different, yes I did the last election to the one before, you were doing last election to the one that hasn't been yet. Well worth a facepalm or two. :lolol:
I could have sworn your post asked a separate question:
Very few I would imagine. But, you could ask the same question about Labour - has anyone switched to Labour who voted for anyone else at the last election? Very, very few there either, I would guess
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Certainly doesn't. We are living longer, we are victims of our own poor health choices. The NHS needs funding, the mantra of it's inefficient is merely an excuse for keeping it below a level it should be financed at.
Do we not need to get out of the mindset that the NHS is always inefficient?
You mention the continent, all of which have a higher healthcare spend per person than we do. Our issue is an unwillingness to fund the NHS, with the notion of 'inefficiency' driving an acceptance of underfunding.
What is an efficient system of looking after the healthcare of 66 million people? Healthcare is expensive. Human beings don't make it any cheaper with poor health choices on top of that.
Private companies aren't getting involved in the NHS and healthcare because they don't feel there are huge...