Posted on 09/08/2021 3:38:26 AM PDT by RandFan
A new health and social care tax will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England.
Boris Johnson said it would raise £12bn a year, designed to tackle the health backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and to bolster social care.
He accepted the tax broke a manifesto pledge, but said the "global pandemic was in no-one's manifesto".
However, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the plan was a "sticking plaster".
Leaders in social care also warned the money was "nowhere near enough" and would not address current problems.
The tax will begin as a 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance from April 2022, paid by both employers and workers, and will then become a separate tax on earned income from 2023 - calculated in the same way as National Insurance and appearing on an employee's payslip.
This will be paid by all working adults, including older workers, and the government says it will be "legally ring-fenced" to go only towards health and social care costs.
Income from share dividends - earned by those who own shares in companies - will also see a 1.25% tax rate increase.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the latest tax increases amounted to £14bn. Together with those announced in the March Budget, it said, 2022 had seen the highest tax rises in 40 years.
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He promised not to raise taxes but now a new 1.25% tax on everyone's pay check to fund social care costs (nursing homes, etc.)
The NHS is the UK’s largest employer.
What the NHS wants, the NHS gets.
Meanwhile people still can’t get their GP to see them in person.
Clap for carers!
And the money won’t be going to geezers.
There are 5 million on the NHS waiting list now for treatment or an operation.
It’s completely broken.
“legally ring-fenced”
This is always a lie, like lottery money going to “the kids”. What happens is the funding goes down from other places that the tax was for and it is spent elsewhere.
NHS ... is completely broken.
Yet everyone is told periodically that more taxpayer money will fix it, until it is discovered it is never enough, so more will be needed. Vicious cycle, that never takes into consideration that maybe the socialist system design and operation is too big to succeed. People in UK cannot imagine a world without socialized medicine. US is moving in that direction since Hubert Humphrey said he would eat the bill if Medicare ever [cost too much money]. He’s lucky he died.
Wait, I thought leaving the EU would save so much money that it would bail out the NHS!
I guess that was a lie.
Boris is Conservative in name only.
You can only take so much from the productive people.
Eventually the system will collapse, just like the Soviet Union.
And you still have to wait 6 months to see a doctor, such reform
It never worked.
But then the NHS, like CoupFlu, has never really been about public health.
Covid in Scotland: Can in-person GP appointments ever fully return?
Looks like someone's holding out for more money.
Another single payer system on its way down the toilet.
Too many elderly, not enough workers and the importation of a million jihadists is 100% on the shoulders of these socialists.
UK citizens be damned of the coming consequences such as higher taxes, a weaker economy, healthcare rationing, more restrictions and further expansion of the communist state.
But it’s “FREE” !!!!
They are getting what they demanded.... the ‘National Health’.
Too late to complain, NOW!!
I bet somewhere in there is another wad of cash for a useless IT company to roll out another unworkable and never fixable “computer upgrade” to the Brit NHS. ‘Cause that is what is needed, yah know. Just new computers and everything will be jolly.
Like pigs at a trough.
I did a month abroad at the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Orthopedic surgery in 1978. The difference between US & UK medicine was shocking at that time. The real differences may get lost in the broad picture.
What made the most impression on me was how the patients were second class citizens. There were very few private rooms only wards of 30+ beds with screens that could be moved into place for the attending physicians visit. The entire team visited, the nurse gave report a few jovial words were said and the team moved on. It was a brave patient who asked a question. After the immediate post op days visits were 1x/week. Patients stayed for months, especially children so their orthopedic devices could be adjusted weekly since it was too expensive to transport them back to their rural homes.
Even more shocking was the attitude of the physicians to the patients who came to clinic (no private or timed appointments available on the National system).
I had been at a University hospital and we always came early, stayed late and worked through lunch. The UK physicians universally came after the patients had been waiting an hour, left for lunch on the dot of noon, had a leisurely 3 course lunch and a smoke while the waiting room of patients waited, returned for the afternoon & left at the stroke of 5p whether there were patients still waiting (since 8am). The patients not seen returned the next day.
Individual physicians were pleasant, concerned but the socialist system defined the patient experience & outcomes.
The procedures available, the medicines etc were all controlled by cost. Not allowing newer surgeries that were standard in the USA saved money. That has persisted to the present and is mirrored in the Canadian system. The citizens of both countries have no idea what they are missing and they swallow the lies about the American system disseminated by the press & by their Governments. The biggest joke was the one about how the Americans envied their system.
Hold on, I thought that the big priority for the UK now was to increase military spending so they could come out from under our wing and “go it alone”
To be fair he couldn’t predict the disruption due to COVID-19
Boris said something like 350 million pounds saved per week.
That number was shown to be incorrect.
Yes and no doubt more Indian programmers to be imported to do the work because Brits are too lazy/stupid!
You couldn’t make it up!
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