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Originally Posted by vorlon24
I think that healthcare should be paid for. Members of the medical profession have to study for years to get their qualifications; why shouldn't they be rewarded for it. Lawyers are, and you normally have to pay for their services as well.
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Until comparatively recently, medical students - as with all other students - did not have to pay tuition fees. They were paid direct plus students got a nice grant to cover their upkeep. I don't think doctors are now badly paid & certainly with the new NHS contracts coming into force the average GP salary will be above 100K with limited out-of-hours work.
However, it is quite true to say that if you supply anything free at the point of delivery you will never be able to satisfy demand and hence clinical care will be rationed by the queue. That is a simple, undeniable fact, no matter what resources you throw at the problem. That every other western country understands this simple piece of common sense yet we do not is simply due to politicall dogma on the part of all the parties. Yet because of this dogma we are saddled with one of the worse health care systems in the west.