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The politicians agreed that this seemed the right course,but noted that careful though needed to be given to the presentation in order to avoid charges that the government had pulled back from its original commitments on long term care.”
That’s not a recent leak: it was from 1995, and shows how far back political failure on social care stretches. Politicians have not incurred any penalties for shirking this responsibility. All’s fair in love with elections, but there is also a deeper problem. The two main parties have fundamentally different ideas about the size of the Country and the role of private wealth. They will never really agree, to some kind of national health services by the end of these second world war, but disagreed strongly over how that service would work, with the conservatives voting against the legislation creating. The same has happened with social care but in slow motion. The past three decades have seen many attempts to reform social care. They all had different solutions and all collapsed in slightly different ways.
1= The parties can’t agree Social care reform is so long term and expensive that it initially makes sense to get politicians of all persuasion locked into its design. That was the reasoning behind the 2009 reforms proposed.
2=:The cap on care costs
In 2011,the Commission proposed a cap of about $25,000 on the amount people should have to pay for long time social care over their lifetime.
The scale of the current is hard to quantify and right thing and be honest with the public about the cost in the 2023 election.
3= We still don’t value elderly people
Where do politicians go when they vist a hospital? It’s rara they bother with the geriatric wards: photo calls are much better in the social care reform is so difficult it we don’t really like to think about what happens when we get old. This wilful ignorance means many people think care is free -so any proposals from politicians infuriate them, as they sound so expensive. Some on the right think we should copy in another countries, where it is perfectly normal for elderly people to move back in with the children: but no politicians is going to make that their big pitch,as it will just sound like a moral lecture.
