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Originally Posted by Maggy
I paid in for my mother and my other elderly relatives. It's called paying forwards and eventually your offspring will be paying forward if we don't go daft and return to the system that was available before the advent of the NHS ect.Not sure I care to return to the days of the poorhouse or people dying in pain because they had no money to pay for healthcare.
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It's not about people who can't afford it, it's about those who have an asset worth a few £100,000. Why should they not pay? Nobody is living in the
house(it's no longer their home), therefore it can be sold. No different to having money in the bank or a large amount in shares etc.
It's not as if we're talking about people who could spend the money on a world cruise or something. They are not meant to be physically capable of doing that, that is why they need the care.
In that sense the current situation, works and is fair and right. Those that can pay are required to do so, and those that can't, aren't required to do so.