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Re:Farewell potholes? UK team invents self-healing road surface by OJFord on Saturday February 08, 2025 @04:15AM (#42981648)
> “Adult Social Care”, which is basically paying for carers to go to wealthy old people and look after them because while they own a million pound house it would be unfair to expect them to pay for their own care.

That's BS. Adult social care is comically underfunded, needs-assessed, and not to a standard or timeliness that you would choose if you could afford private.

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Re:Farewell potholes? UK team invents self-healing road surface by chgs on Saturday February 08, 2025 @07:12PM (#42987337)
Adult social care is mainly to old people, who typically own their own homes. There was a suggestion in 2017 that people with a lot of wealth could fund their own care even if they aren’t moved to a care home (which is currently the case). Labour and the daily mail joined forces to block this.
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