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I would love a government to recognise and tackle the wider determinants of health, agreed Steve. There have been lots of warm words about prevention rather than cure but the reality is that, like you say, general health levels are going in the wrong direction.

Social care is paid for by local authorities not the NHS

Do you have no right to choice in the NHS?

The worst area of demand on the NHS is urgent / unplanned care which private provision of elective care does nothing to help. The poor old NHS hospital and ambulance still has to take on the patient e.g. where an elective private procedure goes wrong. The activity based payments for an NHS...

Who is an insurance based system going to be cheaper for? How is it going to be cheaper?

The budget will continue to go up as the population ages, accept it.

Why would you further complicate the tax system like that rather than just pay them more and create more roles so that the working conditions are improved?

There are more peoplecompleting medical courses than there are training places, they have been oversubscribed for years...

Didn't they boo and still boo Aaron Ramsey after he'd had his leg broken by one of their thugs? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cedn4v3pvw6o

Ageing like a fine wine https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lpjqg2mp5o

He's already said specifically about him he's got a high ceiling

This is Paxman

It would be a tremendous away day TBF

You think the USA should have the right to sell the world everything?

Against whom? Why on earth would China go to war with its source of wealth?

Am I against government spending on what it wants to spend money on? NO Am I against government using arguments for spending on one sector that it contradicts for spending in other sectors? Yes Do I agree that government spending increases money in the private sector? Yes

No wonder he has switched the replies off

No 10 has put a tweet with a purported voxpop from some young people supporting the economic benefits of spending money on weapons. It's absolutely sickening propaganda Putin would be proud of. Meanwhile, back in the real world

It's not really, on promotion you grow into your new wealth pretty rapidly. It's not a good sign that a club with supposedly a very wealthy shareholder is going to Wonga to raise finance.

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