New Year Special - the impact of last year's big stories and campaigns
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4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Happy New NHS?
Among last year's big stories was the 70th anniversary of our beloved health service and whether we are prepared to pay for it through higher taxes.
Our campaign to out the rogue, sometimes criminal, private car park operatives began with a vengeance and will continue long into 2019.
Editor Simon Lambert and host Georgie Frost also explain how to avoid losing your home because of inheritance tax.
And are you ready to ditch your fossil-fueled car for an electric one yet? This story will run and run. Unlike the Range Rover Sport, which was judged to be the least reliable used car to buy last year.
It's all part of our look back - and forward - over the big stories and campaigns of 2018.
Enjoy.,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast in partnership with NS&I. I'm your host, Georgie Frost, and for this special New Year episode, I'll be looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 with editor Simon Lambert and assistant editor Lee Boyce. And don't worry, this is a relatively Brexit-free zone. We did do a special podcast on that a few weeks back. Do go on iTunes or audio boom or the This Is Money webpage to listen back to that one. But on the list, the NHS turns 17 last year. We've got a big birthday boost from the Prime Minister, but not enough to secure its future for the next 70 years and beyond. So what is the solution? Would you be willing to pay |
| 0:38.2 | more tax? The government also went green last year from plastics to roads, but what would it |
| 0:43.8 | take for you to ditch petrol and diesel and go electric? We look at whether the long-awaited |
| 0:49.2 | interest rate-wise was such a good move, how you can avoid inheritance tax, |
| 0:55.5 | turping you out of your home, |
| 0:59.4 | and last year This Is Money got tough on parking sharks. |
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| 1:09.6 | This is Money, brought to you in partnership with Ennis and I, |
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| 1:21.3 | But first, in 2018, the National Health Service celebrated its 70th birthday. |
| 1:25.6 | However, with an ageing population, the service is crying out for more money. |
| 1:28.5 | In the summer, Theresa May promised the NHS in England an extra 20 billion a year by 2023 as a birthday present. Now, we're still awaiting more details |
| 1:34.9 | on that, but it is clear that in the long term, it won't be enough. So where will the rest |
| 1:39.4 | come from? Would you be willing to pay more tax? That was a question we asked back in June. |
| 1:49.0 | As a nation, it's widely considered that we would like to stick with the free at the point |
| 1:54.5 | of use healthcare service that we have in terms of the NHS. Everybody is covered by healthcare. |
| 1:59.8 | If you were going to design a healthcare system, the |
| 2:04.6 | argument from a lot of people who work in healthcare, not just in the NHS, but the kind of people |
| 2:09.7 | who look at all the different healthcare systems around the world, arguably the UK's is a pretty |
| 2:14.9 | good one and you'd go for that kind of model. |
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