The fact is, though, it does cost more to keep people alive when they're elderly, and whereas you rarely get soap opera/philosophical exercise of "really old man vs young girl, who gets the heart?" for every operation, aftercare or medication there's a cost incurred. A cost that could go towards something more long term.
Of course, it's okay for me to say something like this, now; I'm only 26. Come my seventieth birthday, it's most unlikely you'll find me taking the noble Winter Wolf.
I'm not sure what you seem to think is the 'discredited social and political idea' that has been discredited. The NHS, as any fule no, was set up as a reaction to the realisation that after WWII there were a lot of wounded and sick people who needed care, or had been put into so much destitution and poverty by being widowed/orphaned/bombed and that charity alone wasn't going to cut it. Oh, Nye Bevan had his morals, certainly, but that was what pushed it through. I think the NHS as an institution is poorly administrated with varying different trusts all competing against each other, but omentide can probably wax more lyrical about that than I can. What I object to is paying into a State Pension fund when it's blatantly clear that by the time we get to retire there won't be anything to claim.
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The fact is, though, it does cost more to keep people alive when they're elderly, and whereas you rarely get soap opera/philosophical exercise of "really old man vs young girl, who gets the heart?" for every operation, aftercare or medication there's a cost incurred. A cost that could go towards something more long term.
Of course, it's okay for me to say something like this, now; I'm only 26. Come my seventieth birthday, it's most unlikely you'll find me taking the noble Winter Wolf.
I'm not sure what you seem to think is the 'discredited social and political idea' that has been discredited. The NHS, as any fule no, was set up as a reaction to the realisation that after WWII there were a lot of wounded and sick people who needed care, or had been put into so much destitution and poverty by being widowed/orphaned/bombed and that charity alone wasn't going to cut it. Oh, Nye Bevan had his morals, certainly, but that was what pushed it through. I think the NHS as an institution is poorly administrated with varying different trusts all competing against each other, but
What I object to is paying into a State Pension fund when it's blatantly clear that by the time we get to retire there won't be anything to claim.
That and Nesta - Brr!