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In every rich (OECD) country, the share of national income devoted to health services is now higher than it was 10 years ago. Despite the recession, even over the last five years, there is only one OECD country where the share has fallen: Greece ("Cameron warned: NHS is in danger of collapse within next five years", News).
Looking ahead five years, the question for the political parties is not whether health expenditure will rise in real terms as national income recovers, but who will pay for the higher expenditure? The only alternative is to give up our aspirations for a "world class" or even "high class" health service and return to the benchmark of the 1950s to the mid 1990s: an "adequate service".
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/jul/06/the-big-issue-the-nhs-reform-funding
Looking ahead five years, the question for the political parties is not whether health expenditure will rise in real terms as national income recovers, but who will pay for the higher expenditure? The only alternative is to give up our aspirations for a "world class" or even "high class" health service and return to the benchmark of the 1950s to the mid 1990s: an "adequate service".
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/jul/06/the-big-issue-the-nhs-reform-funding