All this free stuff before an election. Roads a mess, hospitals unbuilt, Labour running round handing out shopping vouchers and the SNP offering free music lessons. It's as if they WANT the Barnett Formula scrapped. Thread.
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1. The Barnett Formula is not free money. It is sent to us for largely historical differences in the costs of delivering services. Funding for the NHS is about 5% higher than England, nowhere near the almost 30% higher public spending. This rightly outrages many in England.
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2. Instead that NHS money is given to people with property, to avoid fees paid for by English care home residents. That literally transfers money from patients to property owners. For largely political benefits. Increasingly, the block grant is a greed based formula....
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Care home fees paid through Barnett? News to me!
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"Free personal care" component. Funded by the state, through Barnett.
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That's not care home fees - my late father had to spend all his pension on fees. Of course, SNP likes to give the impression it's free.
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Oh I know!! The Govan widow paradox.https://www.thinkscotland.org/thinkpolitics/articles.html?read_full=13178 …
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"Free Personal Care" <£200pw covers laundry & help with washing/dressing. But many accept the impression that it covers residency fees - and are shocked to learn the truth.
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But if you live in a £500,000 house with minimal care needs you're sorted.
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