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Originally Posted by Chris T
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.
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well show us the facts please, the proof that the NHS will not suffer as Tory will should they get in power with this policy be taking from the NHS half the current trunover of private health care. If you can prove beyond doubt with full facts and figures that the NHS will not become a hugely diluted service with this policy as a cause then great.
IMO this policy is treading into very dangerous territory and could lead to the beginning of the end of the NHS as we know it.