The Telegraph reported that people’s access to free medicine on the NHS will need to be limited because 21st century Britons are unwilling to put up with aches and pains in the way that wartime survivors did.…
Free medicines will have to be cut back
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People who eat doughnuts for breakfast should be charged for prescriptions
Dr Lee warned that members of the ‘baby boomer’ generation were less ‘stoical’ than their parents – with potentially disasterous consequences for the finances of the NHS, The Daily Mail reported.…
Make people with lifestyle-related illnesses pay for their drugs
Tory MP and GP Phillip Lee made a striking call for patients suffering from lifestyle-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes to pay for their prescriptions as part of a larger shake-up of the NHS.…
End free TV licences for OAPs on £50,000
The Daily Express covers a paper by the Free Enterprise Group calling out the welfare system on its benefits for the youth, such as Jobseeker’s Allowance, the elderly, such as free TV and bus pass.…
It’s time for a new Beveridge
Member of the Free Enterprise Group and MP for Kingswood, Chris Skidmore, writes about his new paper which intends to restructure the welfare system, focusing on the younger and elderly population in a way that maintains the spirit of its creator, William Beveridge, but works for today’s larger population and costs the Government far less.…
Should wealthy pensioners get benefits?
BBC News alludes to a paper by the Free Enterprise Group, which encourages Government to have wealthy pensioners’ benefits such as the Winter Allowance or free bus pass cut.…
Ease tax burden on ‘strivers’, say Conservative MPs
Tory MPs call for £50,000 threshold for higher tax
City AM profiles the Free Enterprise Group’s new paper, ‘Motivating the Middle’, arguing for the cut of 40p tax for those earning kess than £50,000 a year to motivate ‘middle income earners because that’s the engine of growth,” argues chairman of the Group Kwasi Kwarteng.…
Tory rising stars: we urge Cameron to slash 40p tax for ‘striving’ families and attack his cuts on child benefit
In an article by the Daily Mail, it is accounted how Tory MPs from the Free Enterprise Group and a new pamphlet ‘Motivating the Middle’ call for Prime Minister David Cameron to fulfill his promise made to cut taxes for hard-working middle-class families.…
How income tax has become such a nightmare for so many
The Editor’s letter of City AM mentions a pamphlet made by the Free Enterprise Group and two of its members, chairman Kwasi Kwarteng and Priti Patel, “two Tory MPs whod eserve to go far.” Editor Alisster Heath criticizes “the fact that Britain has become such a horrendously over-taxed nation” and sets out the incresing pattern on income tax since its introduction as an ’emergency’ measure in the face of war and condemns that it was never taken out but instead expanded.…