Quote Originally Posted by David Vincent View Post
How about encouraging people to look after their own health? If we expanded the NHS so that everyone had their own personal doctor and nurse the country would still be full of overweight smokers. When you look at the nurses and doctors who go on the box and tell us about the coming health timebomb they are usually overweight ill looking people themselves. If more people kept themselves fit and ate properly then we would have more resources available for the people who are ill through no fault of their own.
Poor health and crime is a symptom of poor social opportunities, resources and education. All of these things require state funding and planning.

The tories probably prefer to have a population of gambling, alcohol consuming, unambitious slobs as it is more economically lucrative. Especially when health and policing are privatised.

The higher classes will take care of themselves. They’ll have the best of everything and will become even richer.

Having an upwardly mobile, healthy working class population is costly and doesn’t provide the same short term financial benefits to the upper classes. So why bother?