Jeff's Post

Research suggests the health of the nation has been detrimentally affected by neoliberal economic and social policies.

I visit my doctor and not the government when I am unwell. There are very good reasons for this: I don’t believe anyone was ever cured by neoliberal ideology, nor do I believe that work is a health outcome for ordinary people. Health is a health outcome. Work is just work.
Being unemployed isn’t unhealthy. Below subsistence level social security is. Sanctions are. Poverty and massive inequality are also a major cause of poor health.If work was a reliable health outcome, then the government wouldn’t need to address in-work poverty, although sanctioning low paid or part time workers for the employment conditions that profit driven employers are entirely responsible for won’t change the nature and incidence of in-work poverty. The problem isn’t one that is down to employee behaviours, it is a systemic one.