There are considerable numbers of people who cannot afford £20 for a visit. So, for those people we'd need to implement a bureaucracy to give them free healthca

There are considerable numbers of people who cannot afford £20 for a visit. So, for those people we'd need to implement a bureaucracy to give them free healthcare, and the cost of that would eliminate any potential benefits it would have. There's no evidence it would work. There's some evidence it wouldn't work. Don't forget this study was done in in-patient settings: those patients were actually ill and needed treatment.