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The self-induced healthcare trap

Healthcare funding is struggling because of the continued assumption that governments spend money and don't create it.

In real terms the amount the UK spends on healthcare has risen from £500 in 1970 to £3,000 per person today. That’s a massive increase, but the payback has been that we are living 10 years longer. Ask people if they would be prepared to spend 10% of their income to live ten years longer, most would say yes. Yet we have a real problem in having the gover…

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