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Didn't know where to put this - is it about tax, the NHS, or both, but tl;dr as Mark Haddon said "The true worth of the NHS is that those of us who are lucky enough to pay tax can go to sleep at night, knowing that we have helped make that radical kindness possible" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/16/forever-grateful-what-i-owe-nhs-nadiya-hussain-clive-james
My elderly mother fell and broke her leg August Bank Holiday weekend. She was operated on within 24 hours, had almost three weeks on the wards and is now in a NHS convalescence home for a couple of weeks before hopefully returning home to a semi-independent life again. The care and professionalism of all the NHS staff have been phenomenal. This weekend I developed worrying eye symptoms consistent with a detached retina. Within four hours of the first phone call to the NHS I'd been seen, tested and diagnosed (luckily not a detached retina as it turns out).
I'm happy to pay taxes that provide such services, not just for me and my family but for everyone to have access to professional, caring services based on need and need alone. The planned tax cuts just make the work of the NHS harder https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/20/liz-truss-signals-further-tax-cuts-could-be-on-way-in-hunt-for-economic-growth