32: NHS at 75: What are we up against? – with Professor Jagjit Chadha and Anita Charlesworth
The Health Foundation podcast
The Future of the NHS
The NHS is a national treasure and we don't want to see national treasures lost so I think it will see its hundredth birthday. The question we're all trying to answer is what state will it be in at that time and what will it look like? Will it be able to provide the services that our population needs? One thing we didn't touch on is that we don't have to treat an aging population as a problem. It's not necessarily problematic if we can maintain our health and our vigor for work. All the evidence is that tax funded universal healthcare system is as good as any other option. When you've got an aging population it has some advantages over things like social insurance
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