"What is the point of pouring more money into a black hole, the NHS will always suck up all any money that it gets"
because that's what the Great British Public wants - look at any opinion poll, look at the letters page in any paper, start a conversation at the water cooler or in a bus queue
the NHS is so imbedded as total & overriding necessity in the British pysche that the merest hint of any cut-back turns people in raving loons