Healthcare spending as a share of GDP

[Michael McIntyre]

The man is a moron.  A 50% increase in NHS spending, according to this bozo, will cause the UK's spending on health as a percentage of GDP to increase from 5% to 10%.  Britain's "bloated health bureaucracy" can't deliver the goods, but somehow, underfunded as it is, it already matches the results achieved in Italy and Belgium (who spend more than Britain on health, as % of GDP).  Increased funding on health will damage the UK's economic future....while the countries that already spend more than the UK have already pulled ahead of the land of hope and glory in GDP per capita.  How did Tony Blair, of all creeps, get so lucky in his enemies?  I swear, the little pipsqueak is safe until the day Gordon Brown decides to stick the knife in.

Michael McIntyre


>>> RangerCat67 at aol.com 04/26/02 20:07 PM >>>
This looks interesting. It's a Times article by former Conservative MP 
Matthew Parris. He takes Chancellor Gordon Brown to task for his NHS spending 
plans, arguing that a drastic increase in the share of GDP spent on health 
will do little for the health service and only hurt the UK's future economic 
performance. Does he have a point? (If he does, then the US is in real 
trouble...)