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Farage calls for end to funding NHS through taxes - but fails to offer alternative
(www.independent.co.uk)
Why do people still listen to this idiot???
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Speaking as somebody with a chronic disease which recently caused me surgery and will require medication for life with an increased likelihood of repeat surgeries: FUCK him. Shit eating cunt. Absolute pied piper grifter piece of shit, nasty piece of work nazi LARPer.
He's definitely a dicknosed douche-canoe.
What a cunt
Na, cunts have warmth and depth, things that this man lacks.
Very true! He's just a gobshite.
His alternative is to become a vassal for US healthcare insurance companies
MFs who support this usually point to current UK private healthcare costs and imply it will still cost the same once the majority of healthcare is funded privately rather than via taxes. This is always completely ignorant that private healthcare costs so little in the UK compared to the US because its subsidized by the NHS, the NHS provides much of the more expensive services still, and private has to compete against the NHS on cost as best it can.
Once we have a free market for private healthcare costs to the end user will rapidly balloon.
Let's remember fararge has a history of making comparisons he has no plans to follow.
Switzerland and Norway during Brexit.
The equive now would be to say not funded by taxation dose not mean the US model.
The UK is unique in funding the NHS from the general taxation fund. Everyone else with universal healthcare uses an NI like setup. Our NI dose not fund the NHS. This was an intentional choice that the right strongly objected to.
Fararge will never admit to going US style. He will propose different systems while refusing to commit to any one set of rules.
Really dose not take any imagination to consider who may want this unsure potential change in the UK. More soost it working for Brexit.
It is important for all media and other folks talking to him. To force him to describe the future system he wants.
Being vague is not to be trusted.
The equive now would be
More soost it working for Brexit.
I find this vague and confusing.
Apparently it's a bit of a running joke on maternity wards. People pay for private treatment. However, as soon as there is a serious issue, they are rushed to the same NHS doctors as everyone else. Basically all you pay extra for is a nicer room, and nurses playing maid (or maids playing nurse, depending).
Tariffs? I think I've already seen this episode
Farage is what Farage does. Bellend.