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Originally Posted by zing
anyone who does not like the NHS and can afford private health insurance should have it. Then perhaps those of us who can not afford it might get better treatment and the strain could be lowered somewhat
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I seem to remember Thatcher saying something similar many moons ago, the problem as I see it is that in theory its a good idea, but practically it would certainly lead to a two tier health service.
As more and more "well off" people left the NHS how long would it be before those not benefiting from it got a louder and louder voice politically, complaining of the amount of tax going into a health service they didn't use?
Thats not to mention all the doctors and nurses who where trained on the NHS at taxpayers expense, now having a far larger job market to choose from, consequently forcing wages ever higher.
Within fifty years the NHS would be finished, slowly becoming the poorer cousin to the private sector, IMO the only way a system like ours can work is if its for every citizen in the country irrespective of ability to pay, that way each and everyone of us has a vested interest in seeing the NHS prosper.