To all you older people and those that need medical treatment and care, you had better read how the new social care will come into effect. The older you get, the more likely this will happen to you.
Once your hospital treatment is finished and provided your condition isn’t life threatening, you will be discharged from hospital to “avoid bed-blocking” and handed over to Virgin Care or some other newly minted PRIVATE care company. They will take you home then take care of you until you are healthy. Sounds great so far doesn’t it?
But how will this be paid for? After all the money tree is for rich people.
For a start, your trip home with staff will be billed and I doubt you will get change out of £800. Then comes the daily one hour visit at £150. Not including extras like food, medicines etc. Dinner will be a 2 quid frozen jobby shoved into your own microwave for a nice £15 fee. Night visits will start at £300 each with an extra £200 call-out fee for unscheduled visits.
Of course, all this treatment is free at the point of use. No lying there. However, those fees will be managed by another agency. Let’s call them the National Equity Fund. Each time they receive a bill they will stick another £50 for administration, £30 a month for statements etc. The funders themselves, let’s call them L&G for example will be adding 6% to the bill in interest. In case you don’t know how it works, at 6%, a debt will double in 12 years so the longer you live, the more you will lose, even if you have no more treatment.
With no upper limit given by the government (who were trying to sneak this under the cover of Brexit), all your family may be left with is £100,000.
This whole scheme was deliberately hidden away in the manifesto along with the plan to sell off all hospital buildings before hospitals can claim capital funds. That’s beds, sheets and other essentials to you and me.
If you really care for your health and wealth, think twice before putting your cross next to a Conservative candidate at this election.