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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Get ready to pay more tax for NHS as we live longer, warns ex-Health Secretary

Families should prepare to pay more in tax to fund the NHS, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned today.

The one-time Tory leadership hopeful believed households would be forced to cough up more to pay for healthcare.

“We are all going to have to spend more on our healthcare, it’s the thing that matters to us most of all,” Mr Hunt, who chairs the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, told the Institute for Government think tank.

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