Summary
Government announces a new Health and Social Care tax...
Adam and Laura break down what the new plans are and who will be affected by them. Also, Norman Lamb, the former care minister, pops in to explain how we got to this point... He was the person who suggested a version of these proposals in the first place!
This episode of Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey with producer Danny Wittenberg. The studio director was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, Laura, shall we explain why everyone should care |
| 0:08.3 | about what's been going on with social care |
| 0:10.4 | and the NHS and national insurance today? |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, I think we should. Shall we start? |
| 0:15.4 | Well, I think we should do a list of like everyone |
| 0:17.2 | who is affected by this, because actually, |
| 0:19.0 | you can sort of think, oh, I don't have an elderly relative |
| 0:22.2 | or a young relative who needs care. |
| 0:23.6 | I don't think I'm going to need care. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm not interested. |
| 0:26.0 | You could think, oh, it's nothing to do with me, |
| 0:27.2 | but then I thought, so all the people who this is effects |
| 0:29.9 | are people who need care, either in a home or their own home. |
| 0:34.4 | Yes, they're families. |
| 0:35.8 | I suppose the cliche is that those are always elderly people, |
| 0:39.4 | but often it's not. |
| 0:41.0 | Often it's people with other forms of condition |
| 0:43.0 | or people who can't find it hard to live independently, |
| 0:45.6 | who need other kinds of care. |
| 0:47.2 | People who work, because the tax rise that's been announced today |
| 0:51.5 | is basically on people's earnings via national insurance. |
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