The UK wants to increase spending on health. The Government of the Anglo-Saxon country has published a plan of tax increases that aims to raise £ 12 billion (14,000 million euros) more a year with the aim of increasing spending on the public health system and dependency policies.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stressed that the problems derived from Covid-19 cannot be tackled “without giving the public health system the money it needs,” in statements collected by Europa Press.
For his part, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak explained that “no government wants to raise taxes”, but that “these are extraordinary times and the country faces extraordinary circumstances.”
The Government led by Johnson will increase by 1.25 percentage points the contributions made by companies and workers to Social Securityl from the country. The tax on dividends will also be raised by 1.25 points.
The United Kingdom has gone on to have an average waiting time in health of 44 weeks
The Johnson government hopes to end the delays that the pandemic has caused in the British health system. In England alone, the number of patients on waiting lists for surgery or treatment has already reached a record 5.5 million people.
In case of not increasing health spending, that number could climb to 13 million. The average waiting time compared to before the pandemic has increased from 25 weeks to 44 weeks.
Allocating more resources to health was one of the main arguments of the British right for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union in the referendum carried out by the conservatives to consummate Brexit.
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