Dr

If the predictions of this research are true that more than half of babies born today in the UK and other wealthy nations will live to 100, then our healthcare systems are going to be in major trouble if they carry on in their current ailing vein.

By definition populations are likely to be greater than they are now and will have increased demands for all healthcare services, especially elderly care, and let’s face it, the NHS cannot even cope with current demand!

To prevent these problems the time for governments to act is now.  Rather than wasting taxpayers money playing with schemes that pay people to lose weight and trying to increase the state’s role in healthcare provision as per Obamacare, governments must learn from past mistakes and realise that the state cannot do it all.  There will never be healthy populations while individuals do not take responsibility for their own health and healthcare provision.

Prescriptive Nanny States have failed to provide even adequate healthcare so far and I see no evidence that they will manage to cope with an increasing elderly population.  Although there is no such thing as a perfect system, NFR believes that it is time that the market is allowed to flourish in healthcare funding and provision, who knows what schemes it may offer, but one thing we do know, if any of them are as bad as the NHS then they will go out of business very quickly.