Is Britain’s benefits system broken? w/ Caroline Selman and John Pring

828.215 - 853.162 John Pring

We also need to talk about Unum, which is a massive insurance company, again, American based. and was lobbying the government very, very hard from the mid 1990s to make the assessment processes as tight as they possibly could. And that would encourage people to take out their private insurance policies because they realised that they might not get the support they need if they became ill.