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Have you got a link to the figures?

Personally I think Labour and the Conservatives should join together to get such a think tank to help run the NHS. They should try and set parameters by which each government can try to tinker with the overall package when it's their turn, while the new think tank stays to keep the overall...

That's nonsense. If you have competing private companies bidding for contracts then the prices will be competitive. But who decides what treatment I'm getting? Can I have the new drugs that are best at treating my condition, or are they too expensive? One service provider might offer me...

Thanks, that means a lot to me :D

I said "We already have aspects of a free market as different providers bid for contracts with our current NHS", which is correct. You didn't, I asked "how much can we use?". So I get ill, how much money from the pot can I use to get the treatment I'd like? Who decides? You think it's better...

I was asking dingodan, as he had is own idea on how to improve things. But you're not accepting the fact that it's still politicians that would have to decide how big the budget is, and what they expect to be provided for that budget. We already have aspects of a free market as different...

So when we need health care, can we only use the amount of money we personally have put it, or can we use the overall pot everyone paid into. If the first, then poor people die, if the latter, how much can we use? So you're saying that the NHS provides a worse service than it did in the 40s...

No it doesn't, the politicians would argue about how much that budget is - the right wing would try and keep it down, while the left would say we should increase it so that we get a better service. No amount of money will be enough to give everyone the latest drugs and perfect care for every...

Oh maybe I've completely misunderstood your point. In private businesses the budget is decided by the business, based on the revenue from the customers - I thought you'd still use our tax to pay for the health, but you're saying stop using our tax and charge the patient (or their insurance)...

British Rail?

How do you do that? Who decides what budget the health service gets each year - who decides where the money goes, to new drugs, to research, to palliative care, to old people, young people, etc etc - it's our tax money, who decides what to do with it? This NHS under the Govt. is lost in the...

Even if you had a private company running it all, they'd still get the money and requirements from the government, so it would still be political, but with a private company making a massive profit at our expense. And of course in the years where their gambling went wrong, the taxpayers would...