Not sure about the UK, but in the US many statins cost a lot more than pennies per pill. Either way, the UK needs to fully fund its NHS.
That's an interesting proposition. How do you 'fully fund' healthcare? What is the success condition? No one dies? No one suffers?
The doctor and staff pumping on your dead chest get paid, have the drugs available to try to save you, and are not doing it all by oil lamp. People are going to suffer and die regardless, and you know that.
Of course. And you know I was trying to make a point. We seem to have this delusion that we can somehow contrive a 'system' where everyone gets all the health care they "need". But that's a bottomless cup of coffee.
It isn't bottomless. If the $3T of GDP per year the US spends on healthcare then the bottom is $3T. It isn't like most people will go to the doctor even when they have insurance for every cough and sneeze. They soldier through as best they can instead of losing time at work, sitting in a hard-ass chair in the waiting room for hours, etc.