"The NHS staffing problem is due to a lack of qualified staff seeking work in the country period. " Correct, which is why preventing those with money from jump

"The NHS staffing problem is due to a lack of qualified staff seeking work in the country period. " Correct, which is why preventing those with money from jumping the queue is so important. Then the queue is a priority queue based upon need not ability to pay. There is no place for a 'Fast Track Queue' in the UK health system which serves nobody but the rich. You can't have a 'market' except where there is excess capacity to supply. You've very kindly explained why private medicine cannot exist. "economically illiterate as 'the root causes of inflation is that productive employees haven't been forced into the public sector yet'" Good job that's just a straw man then isn't it. Including the obligatory reference to Venezuela, Zimbabwe or Weimar just to demonstrate the comment is emotional rhetoric and belief rather than anything considered. But of course it is far, far better I presume to give rich people free money in higher interest payments than to ensure poor people have jobs.