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Originally Posted by Damien
Doesnt that create a two teir system? Theres the option to be treated free, or pay extra and get nice private treatment. Its sounds ok because you pay your taxs and then get treated away from the NHS. Although most people cannot afford to go private full stop. This will not bring people who do not go private now to go private. It will simply make those who go private now pay less by taking the money out of the NHS.
Private treatment is very expensive and even with this voucher system it is massively expensive.The idea that loads upon loads of people will go private after this cannot be backed up. Its will come down to £1 Billion pounds taken from the NHS to help pay for peoples private operations without a big dent in waiting times
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Only in Britain could the idea of someone getting something better be held up as an intrinsically bad thing.
What, pray tell, is wrong with a two-tier system? If the end result is that everybody's waiting time is reduced, what harm has been done?
Sorry, but whether you realise this or not, the root of your argument is good old fashioned envy politics, pure and simple.
Tell you what, rather than do the Labour spin, let's look at it another way. Let's consider that those with the financial means to go private are doing a public service by spending their own money doing so, even though they are quite entitled to completely free treatment on the NHS - which they continue to pay for through their taxes even if they don't use it - and it is therefore completely reasonable for the State to do a little to help out.
When you dig beneath the surface, so much of Labour's attitude is 'if I can't have it, neither should you.' But then that's socialism for you. It makes me sick.