Recommended Health and Dental Insurance

[d000hg]

Statistically, insurance is never worth it. If you can afford to pay yourself in the eventuality of needing it (whatever it is) that is

I've never really known what health/dental gets you since urgent care is provided by the NHS.

[saptastic]

Urgent care is amazing generally on the NHS.
But Private Health will often mean a faster diagnosis of serious illnesses and treatment.
Speed of diagnosis can be crucial.

Plus of course a more comfortable hospital stay with your own room ...

[psychocandy]

Loads of stuff isn't available on the NHS. Of course it depends how vain you are what you consider important.

White fillings etc? Dunno why the standard ones would bother someone when 95% of the population have got this type....

[d000hg]

What does private health roughly cost in the UK? I figure all the websites will say "from as little as £12" but that means "£12 if you are a teetotal health nut living on Skye in a box"... what do people here actually pay?

Now that all my ancestors are dead and we stand to inherit a reasonable sum, my thinking is that life insurance is not something we realistically need but perhaps private healthcare could make sense.