"defunded"? Maybe if you're comparing post pandemic budgets to pandemic budgets, but spending is still way up compared to pre-pandemic levels.
If we adjust the data for age and demographic changes, then we can see spending was reduced between 2010 and 2021.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/the-past-present-...
It's pretty blatant dishonesty to say that healthcare hasn't been defunded, and then only focus on NHS provision of healthcare while ignoring public health, social care, nursing care, etc.
Oh? Do what, fund the health system at almost record levels?
> It's pretty blatant dishonesty to say that healthcare hasn't been defunded, and then only focus on NHS provision of healthcare while ignoring public health, social care, nursing care, etc.
It would be if someone had done that. Incidentally, are you saying that NHS has not been defunded? You wouldn't be very popular with said ideologues either then.
Blair’s Labour—for all their faults—at least stopped the bleeding, but there wasn’t enough political & popular support for significantly increased spending.
Then Cameron & his bs “austerity measures” cropped it
Stopped the figurative bleeding and started the literal...
But by stopped the bleeding, do you mean kept at levels comparable to those set by the previous conservative government? I.e., agreeing with the level of funding set by the conservative government.
I find it weird how governments are given a pass in that way. Setting funding from X to Y is a horrific crime, but leaving it at Y when you have the power to change it to X is somehow okay.
Looks like there has been no slashing going on, even adjusted for inflation and demographics. And the conservative governments after 2010 kept funding at about the same levels as the Labour governments set it at. Fancy that.
I wonder what governments have had to show for this massive 2x increase in adjusted healthcare spending. Vast improvements to the system, surely.
Now add inflation, that it was underfunded in the first place, and that the charts used start right after a major recession & the beginning of Thatcher…
Not increasing funding to match inflation is defunding. If you disagree then you’ll be fine working for the sane salary you’d have had in the mid 90s, right?
No. You would not. So either you’re being deliberately obtuse or now you understand
https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/436/90/media-assets/imag...
As you can see, it's below pandemic levels (as I previously said), but still way above pre-pandemic trends.