The Importance of Health in the Economy

The tax burden is already on course to rise to its highest level in 40 years. This was seen as the backdrop for people saying, oh, well, if we want to fund the NHS, then we're going to have to cut something else. The IFS has always been talked about the health of the economy in terms of the size of the deficit - which is the completely wrong approach. And it's very frustrating because we should be caring about our economy and employment and people being standard of living.