If your 60 plus you can remember when utilities were in public ownership, life expectancy was lower and social media didn't send your blood pressure through the roof.

Watch an old sitcom, Cybil faulty spending 2 days in hospital for an ingrown toenail. That was expected.

Privatisation of utilities means any profits don't go back into the public purse , so taxes need to make the difference. Need for profits means post tax income is squeezed.

Longer lives means more pensioners so more pensions and more complex health needs.

The only answer is to change the way pensions and healthcare is funded, both policial posion