Comments by "Terence Field" (@terencefield3204) on "Budget 2024 "one hell of a risk" | Andrew Marr | The New Statesman" video.

  1. No. Intelligent informed people said the NHS is a fundamental broken, a cannot-deliver health-care model that needed rapid replacement with a hybrid continental model that offers FAR FAR better out-comes. I have family members who have died at the hands of the horrific NHS system.  Many others have the same tragedy in their lives.  Indeed vast numbers do,
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  2. except it makes many people who are far from prosperous worse off, sometimes very much worse off. I wish that what you wrote ws true. It is not.That is the tragedy here.
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  3.  @Matt-ou7tu  the Hybrid system requires the PROSPEROUS to shoulder the added cost and the full integration of public and private clinics and hospitals adds IMMENSE capacity
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  4.  @RomaCharly  How terrible, you may be correct. I am very pleased I left the place decades ago. All the best to you
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  5. A friend of mine is in desperation for his wife if he dies first and 40% of the pension he has built up and would go to finance her small private pension now goes in IHT. She will be impoverished. Many must now be in such a condition, and he simply does not understand how it can be that his private pension fund is described by the BBC and others as a tax avoidance mechanism when he saved for decades into it, now he draws on it and pays income tax on it.  This all seems brutal.
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  6.  @grandmoffmiranda7909  It always was
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