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I was responding to a post which talked about this. Of course, the issues are far deeper, which is what I alluded to in my earlier post, (which you may not have read) and this puts it all in context. Unless you go at a very unfashionable time, by the way, I suspect that most peoples experience...

Many thanks for this and I see you point. Left to their own devices, and where money is involved, I am sure that quite a fair few folk would do their utmost to avoid paying. Don't we hear that 1 in 20 motorists on our roads are uninsured, which I think was your example in an earlier post. I...

Reluctantly, I agree in that where do you draw the line and so this must I suppose operate. At my NHS medical, the nurse said that I was obese -how dare she?! It was one of those height against weight computer things. I suppose that I might under other circumstances have been banned from...

Yes, I think most people would agree largely with it -how it is delivered is certainly the issue. We could broaden the issue and ask if it should be free or indeed given to those who are determined to put two fingers up the system. It must be very annoying for the emergency services to take the...

This is the question that I posed, and hopefully someone can enlighten me. What happens if you cannot pay in a private system? Does it necessarily follow that your treatment is worse? I could believe that it does, but it is all too easy to fall into that line, when defending the NHS. I don't...

Yes, you are quite right -only those who cannot/will not pay get the service for free. Because you can walk into the surgery/clinic etc and pay nothing, we do tend to think it is all free, whereas a chunk of our taxes pay for it, and this can be easily forgotten. Of course, the quality of care...

Thank you for your reply. This is one of the main -if not THE main, advantage of a system such as ours - in theory at least, you get the treatment, no questions asked. I am not quite sure that if a different system were to operate, it would rip the heart and soul of society - if this somewhat...

I too responded to the post that everyone should not want the NHS to be dismantled. I thought about mentioning that after 24 years in Germany, and experiencing the German system first-hand, there are other systems that work equally as well. That is not to say that we should dismantle the NHS...

Very few people would argue that the NHS has not been a force for the good, and it is indeed a very popular institution. I have benefitted from it, as you doubtless you have. The problem is that very often huge, impersonal, monolithic state-run bureaucracies, which it has become, are not always...

Originally Posted by bashlsdir View Post If you look at who cleans our hospitals that job is being run by a private company. For the life of me I don't know why something as important as cleaning especially in a hospital is being run by a private company in the first place, but there you go...

I certainly agree to a point. For many years, I had a "simple" insurance when I could claim back a few bob after eg visiting the dentist. Then two years ago, I received a letter saying that the firm had been taken over by a larger set-up with a flash name centering around your health -best not...

Hello again! I am not sure if this post is sarcastic or not??! Inevitably, the issue of whether it is run as well as this says, depends on your experience. My mother suffers with Dementia, and I have repeatedly asked the clinic to stop sending medication to the local chemist and I would email...