If the main goal of modern healthcare was to cure the individual of illness, then the whole industry wouldn’t have been privatised.
It never used to be.
The NHS was founded in 1948 with 3 main principles:
Universal coverage: The system must meet the needs of everyone.
Tax-funded: Services are free at the point of delivery.
Clinical need: Care is based on sickness, not ability to pay.
Humble beginnings, modest enough propositions, and I have to say I agree with them wholeheartedly.
But that’s not how it works.
The system, as it stands today, doesn’t meet the demand of all that need it, if it did, there wouldn’t be people in a&e for up-to 5 days before being seen.
The funding for the NHS is through taxation, yet if the money we pay in tax was actually sent to the NHS, then the aforementioned point of poor coverage wouldn’t exist.
I have family that work within the NHS, the main issue is underfunding, and understaffed; so if the promise was for it to be funded by the taxpayer:
where is the money go…
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