Moral failure in politics causes patients to suffer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Sir Andrew Dilnot, in his landmark report on social care in 2011, advised the Cameron administration to adopt an insurance system to ensure such care for all who needed it, without bankrupting the country.
51% : If this government is afraid to have this crucial conversation with the public about saving the NHS by planning for the realities of social care, then that public may soon decide to choose one that is.
50% : Boris Johnson promised to "fix social care" on September 7, 2021: it had taken him two years in Downing Street to get that far.
44% : Politicians have refused to tackle the problem of social care.
34% : Those extra years are often of low quality and high dependency, of which the NHS is having to bear an unreasonable burden because of inadequate social care.

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