Pensions Crisis Solved

We can now sleep easily.

The pensions crisis is solved.

Did you fall asleep and miss something? - No.

The solution comes from the reform/ privitisation of the NHS.

If you ask a trust executive, you will find that they see the NHS not as the employer, but as one funding stream. Most trusts are setting up private sections in their hospitals and consultants are being asked to join partnership groups much like GP practices.
A number of private providers are poised to enter this area.

This all means that the NHS is effectively being dismantled, but because most people will not notice, not that many people will care.

Some services will get better.

So, cui bono.
I am not sure, but basically if you are otherwise reasonably healthy, but have one thing wrong with you - from a broken arm, to a hip replacement, that does not tend to have complications, you will be fine.

Hospital doctors will award themselves v. big pay rises to bring themselves up to GP levels.

Who suffers.
If you have something complicated wrong with you, like a broken hip and pneumonia and altzhiemers, you will not be a source of profit to the provider.

Multi-factor problems tend to happen to old people.

More old people dying = less strain on the state.

Not nice, but rather inevitable