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Originally Posted by jaysay
So lets see then your offered a job and one of the perks is private health insurance, I presume you'd turn down that part of the package on principal then  |
Actually yes, and I have. The problem with private medicine is it is extremely limited as to what it can offer. If any major things need doing they shunt them off to NHS hospitals and push there patients in front of NHS patients, which of course, morally, should never happen. If we are going to have private medicine in this country then okay, I don't have a problem with that. But the private medical companies should be made to invest more of their profits into making there own hospitals able to cope with
all problems. Never, in my opinion, should the two co-exist. The only reason they do use NHS hospitals is quite simply because they are
better. Private hospitals are okay if you have a relatively minor problem and want to stay in a hotel.
I have in the past accepted private dental care because it was the only thing available at that time (thanks to the Tories) and it meant I didn't have to pay. I can now say that I am now in the care of an NHS dentist, and very good he is to.