NHS to get additional funding from Brexit dividend?

[DaveB]

As you were, it won't be paid for by Brexit after all. They are just going to increase taxes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44516123

So who were the tax and spend mob again?

[vetran]

throw good money after bad.

Yeah because the NHS is underfunded and superbly efficient lets throw more cash at it rather than reform it.

https://www.ft.com/content/4a009b68-...8-edda0bcbc928

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But the researchers — John Appleby, chief economist at the Nuffield Trust, and Ben Gershlick, economics analyst at the Health Foundation — found that a new definition of health spending adopted by the OECD suggests that the UK actually spent above both the EU-15 and the OECD averages, as a percentage of GDP, in 2014.

We pay more for the NHS but they can get a same day appointment in France.


https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...gap-NHS-crisis

for 1 Million expats we get charged 10 times as much as we charge for 5 million plus EU citizens.

They showed that the UK paid just over £630million to European Economic Area countries which include the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, along with Switzerland, in 2016-17.

The UK claimed back just under £66.5milion in respect of NHS treatment of those countries' nationals, a discrepancy of nearly £564million or some £11milion a week.

The biggest gaps were with France, Ireland and Spain who between them received £551million from the UK for treating Britons but paid the NHS only £28million for treating their nationals.

so we have complete control over medical tourism.


Theresa May is told to go to war on NHS waste  | Daily Mail Online


yep we overpay for most things

[darmstadt]

Simple to understand terms:



We're proposing to fund the big purple bit (Health 18.9%) with saving made on the tiny violet bit (EU net payments 0.42%). So where is the rest coming from?

[Zigenare]

Simple to understand terms:

We're proposing to fund the big purple bit (Health 18.9%) with saving made on the tiny violet bit (EU net payments 0.42%). So where is the rest coming from?

Rather disingenuous - the "increase" will be funded in part by the "Brexit Dividend" and increased taxation.

[Old Greg]

Rather disingenuous - the "increase" will be funded in part by the "Brexit Dividend" and increased taxation.

There is no Brexit dividend.

[meridian]

Rather disingenuous - the "increase" will be funded in part by the "Brexit Dividend" and increased taxation.

“In part”, lol. That’s 0.02p taken care of, out of a negative number. Who’s funding the other 19.99 billion? Certainly not the overseas-based Brexiters....

Who’s calling who disingenuous?

[sasguru]

There is no Brexit dividend.

Basic arithmetic and logic aren't his strong points.

[Old Greg]

Basic arithmetic and logic aren't his strong points.

That's what you get from a lifetime of trying to square a circle.

[motoukenin]

Simple to understand terms:



We're proposing to fund the big purple bit (Health 18.9%) with saving made on the tiny violet bit (EU net payments 0.42%). So where is the rest coming from?

From the increased sales of Unicorn meat to Bangladesh, obvious really.

[Old Greg]

From the increased sales of Unicorn meat to Bangladesh, obvious really.

And Turkish Delight sales to Narnia.