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Honestly I don't understand how the NHS is so important to so many voters and yet people still will vote conservative after a whole year of Hunt so publically trying to ruin the NHS.
How many people voting Tory have private healthcare and so don't see themselves reliant on the NHS?
Greenbank-
I thought that most private healthcare 'cherry-picks' the easy stuff,
varicose veins/cataracts/ physiotherapy, what have you,
and leaves the invasive surgery, A&E, and long term cancer care, (as examples),
to the NHS,
meaning that even employees lured by the perk of 'Private Healthcare', find themselves back in NHS queues for serious stuff. -
How many people voting Tory have private healthcare and so don't see themselves reliant on the NHS?
I'd guess quite a few have insurance, but that is often fairly limited in scope. I'd have thought that in the UK a lot of private healthcare benefits from the NHS from a structural POV. People misequate(?) "not using the NHS much so far" with "reliant on". Last time I read anything on the subject it seems that most spending is on children and old people... neither of which I image have their own insurance.
In relation to state spending I think a lot of Conservative voters feel frustrated when they see money that they have earned, taxed, and then wasted. This makes them understandably cynical.
For eg stories about Whitehall civil servants on final salary pensions who've been involved in some total clusterfucks that have cost the state a fortune. That then contrasts with successive governments hitting their DC pensions. Unfortunately this is often equated with all state sector workers.
mespilus
hugo7
Honestly I don't understand how the NHS is so important to so many voters and yet people still will vote conservative after a whole year of Hunt so publically trying to ruin the NHS.
It looks like the Torys have adopted Project Fear, saying if you don't vote for us then Brexit will be the worst it could be, when it reality the opposite is true. I hope it backfires on them just as it did to the Remain campaign.