The NHS is 98.8% funded by taxes and national insurance contributions. The remainder comes from payments made my patients. All of this is on the public record.
My dude. For one, I live in the UK, I personally pay for medical treatment as a migrant. Every migrant pays fees and undocumented people pay not just full price tags but 120% of medical care costs. You can “pay” for something but note what SUBSIDIZES the welfare system. The same with uni tuition.
Two, I named the NHS as a whole. I’m also talking about the workforce, largely migrants from the commonwealth - a colonially managed system of neocolonies - who PAY to enter the country and do the LABOR. The labor is an important aspect here.
Could I have been more detailed in my reply, sure, but you could have been more generous in your response. C’est la vie. If you want some more reading on how migrants subsidize the NHS, I can find some. I appreciate the work of Dr. Arianne Shahvisi on this.
Sorry, you’re right, I didn’t address your 99.8% thing. I’m happy to be wrong here about primary funds! but the labor issue is really essential to the NHS. The wealth of the nation is also still based heavily on income from the global south. (Link for my & others’ edification)
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But it's a matter of public record that the NHS is funded mainly from general taxation supplemented by National Insurance contributions.
Please at least google before spreading misinformation.