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This is possibly true. OTOH our human bias is always to want to do more and more to help more and more people - which is rightly our moral instincts. This is really difficult when we are spending monumental amounts of money on new molecular drugs for cancer which are nuking the wider NHS budget. Meanwhile the NHS budget grows and grows and we are doing little to improve social care and the lives of those who are living to ever older ages with poor quality, often in institutional care. We need to divert funding to social care to improve the lives of those who are living longer, and we need to prioritise, and ration according to those priorities and equality within the realistic constraints of what we can afford within our economy, which genuinely does have limits.