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Originally Posted by NitroNutter
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.
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Sorry, burden of proof doesn't work like that. You have made the allegation that the NHS will become a hugely diluted service as a result of Tory policy. You prove it.
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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
you might not be aware of this but where the waiting list exceeds targets, the current policy (a Labour one) is to send the person to have the operation done privately and PAID FOR BY THE NHS! so the conservative idea might (ironically) save the NHS money - firstly by giving an incentive for loads more people to go private and secondly by reducing the waiting lists thus stopping the NHS funding 100% of treatment.
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A very good point. Labour is already paying 100% of the cost of some operations done in private hospitals. The Tories propose to fund only a proportion of the cost of treatment in private hospitals.