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IPPR defends UK healthcare funding model

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Tax-funded systems have key advantages over their insurance-based counterparts, report finds.

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has faced a raft of challenges in recent years, from ongoing staff strikes over pay to claims the business model is ineffectual, overbloated, and mismanaged.

The German and Dutch models, funded by social health insurance, are frequently compared favorably with the British system. But

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