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Originally Posted by lettie
. I can see the day when the NHS will go private, it has already started to happen. You can see the trends towards private care when you look at information on PCTs and Foundation Trusts. When things go private, people in this country will be in for a shock but I reckon that it is being done with stealth and at such a slow pace that the powers that be are hoping that nobody notices....  |
I agree.....and there will be some cultural resistance to it. However, it is already happening in Canada to some degree because people there are fed up with the limitations of their NHS and are now willing to consider at least partial privatization. Canadian doctors have been coming to America for years to practice medicine - and patients cross our border for treatment frequently because of long waits in Canada. Read the following interview with Dr. David Gratzer recently - author of several books on the subject. He's a Canadian doctor who came to the States. He thinks Americans are over-insured when it comes to healthcare. I couldn't agree with him more. As a person who has never over-insured in this regard, I can tell you that the free market works well. More and more doctors here are going completely private......as in not accepting insurance payments at all. It is expensive for them to do the paperwork and insurance companies infringe upon their relationship with the patient. You would perhaps be surprised to find how much less doctors charge when you pay them directly. Even doctors who do accept insurance will always give you a discount if you pay cash. Often a very substantial one. I like dealing one on one with my physicians.
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