Talking-up Scotland

‘This means that the press and political classes are now discussing a theoretical impossibility. Think about it for a moment, and you realise the NHS can’t go broke. It’s not an endowment with a set pot of cash, but a giant service with a yearly budget. Unlike a business, it doesn’t need to raise money from sales – as taxpayers and voters, we have the final say over how much funding it gets. This panic isn’t economic at all, but politically created.’

I haven’t got the time or energy to pick apart the flood of negative media reports and the disgusting Unionist feeding frenzy on an alleged crisis in our demonstrably robust NHS. The Audit Scotland report is flimsy, impressionistic and utterly lacking in empirical evidence. The above quote from the Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty on NHS England explains better than I can how such phenomena are created for political ends.

Ignore them if you can.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/08/this-nhs-crisis-is-not-economic-its-political