ANDREW NEIL: Choirs singing for NHS's 75th birthday but its on brink

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : There was a time when other European countries, still struggling to emerge from the ruins of World War II, looked enviously at the new system of universal healthcare we were building.
56% : What does work, as we can see from Germany to France, Switzerland to Sweden, is healthcare that is generously funded from the public purse but allows for a fair degree of private provision (which the state can pay for everybody to use) and private spending by people to supplement state spending.
52% : Britain's is over-centralised, top-down, managerial, inefficient, in the grip of its own powerful vested interests and dependant on only one source of income: tax.
49% : A Hull mum spent two nights sleeping on chairs at Hull Royal Infirmary and felt she was left with no choice but to head home after witnessing first-hand the immense pressure on the NHS A long queue of patients line a corridor at Aintree Hospital as hospitals run out of beds to treat them The £180 billion a year we now spend on health and social care gobbles up 40p of every pound we spend on public services.

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