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Re:Saying Thank You to the NHS, Using Clojure by jahaja on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:04PM (#23071260)
Are you suggesting that one should only look at the absolute numbers? Staying at the previous year's funding is usually - in practice - a reduction for most welfare services.
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Re:Saying Thank You to the NHS, Using Clojure by monoclechris on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:24PM (#23071477)
I am suggesting we keep in line with reality and facts, nothing more, nothing less.
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Re:Saying Thank You to the NHS, Using Clojure by jahaja on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:12PM (#23072063)
Yes, and facts is that freezing funding while costs rise is effectively a reduction in funding.
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Re:Saying Thank You to the NHS, Using Clojure by iso1631 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:02AM (#23078658)
With aging populations and more expensive healthcare funding, health inflation is far higher.

The only real way to compare is to create a healthcare inflation index on a per capita basis from a group of like countries and look at funding that way.

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