The NHS doesn’t need £2,000 from each household to survive. It’s fake maths | Phil McDuff

The language of politics warps our democracy again and again, as in this tax calculation. The media must unpack statisticsLast week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation published a report on funding for health and social care. One figure from the report was repeated across the headlines. For the NHS to stay afloat, it would require “£2,000 in tax from every household”. Shocking stuff!The trouble with figures like this is that while there may be a sense in