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This has largely changed now - and is still changing. There are more options for people who wish to pay for extra treatment, even to the extent of the NHS fundi
by dflock 17y ago
This has largely changed now - and is still changing. There are more options for people who wish to pay for extra treatment, even to the extent of the NHS funding medical tourism where it's cheaper to do so - and the option to go private for most treatments if you wish, without penalty - except having to pay for it yourself, of course.
As far as I know, I am not a member of any shadowy elites and I've never felt the need for any form of private healthcare. The NHS has always sorted me out - and on several occasions cheerfully saved my life - with no bills and minimum of fuss.
- grandalf 17y agoThere was a big story last year about a woman who was denied the ability to pay for her own care. I'm glad to hear things are changing. But, that things are changing suggests that the system is not working to provide equal care, since there is significant demand for going above and beyond what the NHS offers. It's essentially turning into an apartheid style system where the poor get one thing and the rich get another. Which may be the reality of the world in some sense, but is surely not the objective of the system. That said, I think the NHS is the best nationalized healthcare system in the world b/c it does actually impose accountability on itself for costs and outcomes, and publishes the results.