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Frail elderly people, those with chronic conditions or mental health problems and those developing obesity and life-style related illnesses often receive very mediocre care.
Valid points - but don't like the sound of these:
Elderly people, the biggest consumers of healthcare, could contribute more, albeit after they die: it cannot be fair that just 3.5% of the annual 500,000 deaths lead to payment of inheritance tax.
The membership fee is just the beginning of our plans to expand the tax base for health care
No mention of the recent influx of immigrants given instant free access to first world health care often to correct congenital defects - or the health tourists
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think
We need to move to a system more like Germany and France - mostly insurance based. People seem to be much happier with the Health Services there and they seem to have better outcomes than the UK, particularly for diseases such as cancer - diagnosis is quicker and hence survival rates are higher.
A centrally funded system may work in smaller countries like Scandinavia but not in a large one like the UK.
Most people being complete morons though, changing the NHS is a political hot potato that no party can contemplate doing.
We need to move to a system more like Germany and France - mostly insurance based. People seem to be much happier with the Health Services there and they seem to have better outcomes than the UK, particularly for diseases such as cancer - diagnosis is quicker and hence survival rates are higher.
A centrally funded system may work in smaller countries like Scandinavia but not in a large one like the UK.
Most people being complete morons though, changing the NHS is a political hot potato that no party can contemplate doing.
How do the poor in France and Germany afford healthcare?
How do the poor in France and Germany afford healthcare?
Not sure, but its not like the US is (or was) - everyone gets treated.
It's just that their whole system is not centrally funded like ours.
Did you know it's pretty normal in a French hospital to get a room of your own?
Don't know how they do it.
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