Why we don't know how much a 'National Care Service' could cost UK

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : A Scotgov factsheet states that in the "most recent financial year [2022-2023] that we have full figures for spending on social care in Scotland,... £5.75bn was spent on social care".
59% : "What people ignore is social care is now delivered by 153 local authorities," he said.
53% : In Scotland, where plans for a Scottish National Care Service (NCS) are underway but have been delayed, the government wants to transfer responsibility for social care from councils to a new national body.
49% : As Dr Clarissa Giebel, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Population Health, wrote last year: "Would it mean a tax for everyone, similar to National Insurance? "Would it be an additionally embedded fee within our council tax, even though some of us already pay a social care fee within our council tax?" Under the previous government, in September 2021, a cap on social care costs of some £86,000 was announced, which would be the max each individual would have to pay.
48% : Professor Martin Green, Care England chief executive, stressed: "This commission will simply confirm what we already know - how many more reports must we endure before action is taken?" While Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey branded it "another excuse to kick the can down the road" - and said the review should be "done and dusted within a year at most". Shadow health secretary Edward Argar stated: "After 14 years in opposition it is deeply disappointing that Labour doesn't have a plan for social care." How much could a National Care Service cost?

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