Who doesn't want to have 'free', quality, healthcare throughout their life? We have pretty much had this for 70 years. The fact is that it can be afforded - yes, demography, mortality trends, and advanced treatments mean it is more costly than ever but the nation is far wealthier than it was when the NHS was founded.
If voters are even moderately rationale, the long term repair of health and social care will be the key issue when we vote for the next government in a couple of years. On that basis it will be a hard sell for the party of capital.
Then again, it should be a hard sell whatever the burning questions are. After a dozen years of venality, cronyism, incompetence and dishonesty, everything is broken.
They know this, which is why they are trying to make us think it was all inevitable. And if it wasn't, it's the fault of the poor people, aka strikers. That is what is behind all the talk of charges, insurance based healthcare, and so on. They can't actually promise to fix it because we would all want to know who broke it.
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