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Growstuff does the German insurance system also end up with siphoning money? How does it work? Did not the Nhs have record amounts siphoned off during the pandemic without an insurance based system?
The money 'siphoned off' during the pandemic wasn't money that had been allocated to the NHS. It was the extra money for purchasing PPF and for the Test, Track and Trace. Of course, there was funding for the vaccination programme, too, but there was no extra money put into the NHS itself. And we know that the money was siphoned off into the pockets of tory friends and donors.
If the government could fund all those extras, at a cost of £billions there is no reason for it not to be able to properly fund the NHS at all. The model is only 'failing' because the government refuses to fund it properly.
You have to understand that it is a more efficient use of money to directly fund the NHS and get it returned to the Treasury via taxation, than it is to add an extra layer of privatisation where a significant part of the money goes into the pockets of 'investors' via dividends and doesn't return to the Treasury in such a large amount (because they don't spend it, they speculate with it... or send it to a tax haven and use tax avoidance schemes. Why should public money be used an inefficient way?
