英国智库国王基金的最新研究表明，国家医疗服务体系（NHS）三大创立原则——免费、全民可得、税收资助——的公众支持度在过去五年间出现普遍下降1。除千禧一代对税收资助的支持略有上升外，其他所有年龄段对这三项原则的支持都有所减弱1。其中，战前一代认为NHS应对所有人可得的比例从87.1%下降到73.2%，跌幅达13.9个百分点1；婴儿潮世代的该比例从83.1%下降到71.2%，下降11.9个百分点1。Z世代对NHS税收资助的支持下跌11.2个百分点至74.1%，成为各代群体中支持度最低的，远低于其他年龄段的80%以上水平1。
国王基金高级分析师丹尼尔·杰弗里斯指出："在公众对NHS满意度创历史新低和不同年龄段政治立场分歧加大的背景下，虽然对NHS原则的支持仍然强劲，但政治家和公众不应该把这种支持视为理所当然"1。财政研究所的分析认为，今天的年轻人在经济上比前几代人同龄时更差，面临高房价、学生债务、工资停滞等多重压力1。
Public backing for the three founding principles of Britain's National Health Service—free access, universal availability, and tax-based funding—has fallen over the past five years, according to research from the King's Fund think tank 1. Support for these core tenets has dropped across most age groups between 2021 and 2025, with the pre-war generation seeing their endorsement of NHS availability for all decline by 13.9 percentage points from 87.1% to 73.2%, while baby boomers recorded an 11.9 percentage point fall from 83.1% to 71.2% 1. Generation Z experienced a significant decline in support for tax-funded NHS provision, with backing dropping 11.2 percentage points to 74.1%—below the 80% threshold seen among other age groups 1. Only millennials showed a slight increase in support for tax-based funding 1.
Daniel Jeffreys, senior analyst at the King's Fund, stated: "Despite strong overall backing for NHS principles, against a backdrop of record-low satisfaction with the service and widening political divisions across generations, policymakers and the public should not take this support for granted" 1. Analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies reveals that today's young people face considerably worse economic circumstances than previous generations at comparable ages, confronting high property costs, student debt burdens, and wage stagnation 1.
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