Turkey.
You make some incredibly valid points, the money our government sees fit to throw at things like HS2, foreign wars, aid that goes to the wrong place, PPE that goes to landfill etc etc is staggering and almost criminal.
Simply hosting the orange buffoon that is Donald Trump is money we could spend much more effectively elsewhere.
The health service was set up to provide a level of care not previously seen and out of reach of working class folk. But it has become perverted to provide unnecessary "Health care" and to mend a level of self abuse by a population that has way too much compared to the post war austerity in which it was born.
People were fitter, lighter and healthier back then. Before widespread use of drugs was even possible, when they ate food that was basic but better for them and when they walked more than they ride around in cars, or indeed mobility scooters which are now just a motorised shopping trolley for many (i know i know there are genuine reasons for using such a device but really? Some of the folk you see on them would be better off walking).
It's not simply the lack of money or wages or whatever that has broken the health service or the police, or ambulance or fire service. It is us, the Great British public, with access to mobile phones and the Internet we overload services that could never cope with the sheer volume of rubbish that modern life generates. As a cop I saw the world change from BC (before cell phones) to AD always demanding.
I always said my first job as health secretary would be to put large bouncers on every A&E reception instead of triage nurses;
"You fell at work and injured your knee? Please come in and we will have someone to you shortly"
"You got drunk, took drugs, tried to climb some scaffolding and fell off. And now you have a twisted ankle and want to sue not only the scaffolding firm but the alcohol company, drug supplier and probably the NHS too. On your way sunshine, we are not here for idiots like you"
Might sound harsh but the average A&E department wastes countless hours on people who feel so entitled they will not be told no. Whilst waiting for treatment to a work injury, I watched a man recently park his Audi in an ambulance bay, he spoke to the triage nurse explaining when he lifted his arm it hurt him. No he had not had an accident, no he did not know how this had happened, no it wasn't an emergency, no it didn't stop him working or driving. It just hurt and he was here now so somebody damned well better see him as he had paid his taxes. I was within an ace of stepping up to this privileged pile of nonsense and inviting him outdoors to generate injuries that would require the services of A&E.
The country has gone soft and no amount of funding will cure this affliction, too much disposable income and a skewed sense of priorities, data poverty? Come on, thats not poverty just because you can't update your kids Facebook status.
It's so easy to become political and blame the doctors, the government, the austerity etc etc. But a lot comes back to the way we and others abuse the systems that once coped very well with the demand they were built to deal with.