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October 22 UpdateShould English taxpayers fund Scottish healthcare?
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While millions of patients in England and Northern Ireland are expected to pay for lifesaving drugs, Scottish ministers have joined their Welsh counterparts and pledged to abolish prescription charges north of the border. Scots already have access to free eye and dental check ups, free personal care for the elderly, extra central heating grants and a number of drugs deemed “too costly” for the NHS in England and Wales. Critics claim the Barnett formula, the calculation which allocates Treasury funding to Britain’s regions, and currently gives Scotland £1,500 more per head than England, forces English taxpayers to subsidise Scottish largesse. Even Joel Barnett, the inventor of the formula, has called for his system to be re-evaluated. Should prescriptions be free for all or should they be means tested? What can the Government do to fix the “extreme form of postcode lottery”? With all of the discrepancies in standards and accusations of a two-tier service, can we actually say that we have a National Health Service? To send a letter to the editor of The Daily Telegraph, email dtletters@telegraph.co.uk Comments (60)
No wonder the Aussie's refer to the English as "whingeing poms"! Differences in policy? Wake up and smell the coffee! It's called devolution. Instead of going on about the Scots why don't they The Scots and Welsh would be well advised to dismantle the National Health Soviet on their side of the border and introduce a patient based system similar to that of the French. The English could then be left to 'enjoy' the worst health care system in western Europe. Why are we complaining.For the last ten years we have been ruled by mainly Scottish background MP'S.Gordon Brown,Alistair Darling,John Reid to name just a few.They have been buying Scottish votes for years. Oh absolutely! And Zimbabwe, France, the Cayman Islands, Massachusetts, Tesco, the South African Rugby team, my goldfish... Comments (1)
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