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razoo » 20 Apr 2023, 9:45 am » wrote: ↑

20 Apr 2023, 9:45 am

10 Reasons Americans Need Single Payer

• Patients and doctors make health care decisions. You choose your doctor. ... 
• Everybody in. Single payer covers all of us. ... 
• Never lose coverage again. ... 
• Stop waste. ... 
• Stabilize costs. ... 
• Stop medical bankruptcy. ... 
• End financial rationing. ... 
• Businesses can focus on their core mission.

National Nurses United
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org › top-10-reasons...

Sep 20, 2017 — Everybody in,nobody out. · Portability. · Uniform benefits. · Prevention. · Choice of physician. · Ending insurance industry interference with care.

NHS leaders facing real-terms cut in funding and ‘impossible choices’ over which areas of patient care to cut back 

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NHS leaders face impossible choices over whether to cut patient care or reduce investment in much needed diagnostic capacity and new technology after a series of unexpected cost pressures, including a new pay award for staff, left the NHS facing its first real terms cut in funding.

 The government has now confirmed that it will make further investment in the pay of NHS staff of approximately 5 per cent overall. However, only 3 per cent of this investment in pay has been budgeted for. With no extra money coming from the government to pay for the additional 2 per cent investment, the NHS will have to absorb this within its existing budget. This is around an extra £1.8 billion of costs that were not planned for.   

 The extra costs of pay are on top of a range of other unexpected cost pressures that are eating into the NHS budget, including: 

• The impact of high energy costs and soaring inflation more generally, which is reducing the value of the NHS budget.  
• The ongoing costs from COVID-19, including from providing free lateral flow tests for staff (these costs are no longer funded centrally by government). 

 New analysis from the NHS Confederation confirms that these extra costs mean the health service is this year facing a real-terms cut in funding of between £4 billion and £9.4 billion (depending on which measure of inflation is used*). This is one of the reasons why the NHS is required to make efficiency savings of 2.2 per cent, which is double the requirement of recent years.