NHS crisis: 'Over my dead body' - Proposals to make some patients pay for care spark backlash
Strikes, pay, and an ageing population are just some of the challenges the NHS has to address if it is going to continue to provide life long, free healthcare
There are those - like former health secretary Sajid Javid - who think the way forward for the free cradle-to-grave service is to start charging the patients who can afford it.
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting's reply to this proposal was: "Over my dead body."
8 comments:
Many of our dead bodies at this rate.
What's particularly amusing is the fact that Streeting has no ability to stop any such change. There will be no dead Streeting, changes will or will not be made ( more likely will not) and the whole circus will keep bimbling on.
Streeting seems to spout all sorts of gibberish to keep his name in the ring to 'lead' the labour party one day!
Hollow words from an empty head, je pense...
James - certainly above the five year average, but we aren't supposed to notice that.
Sam - yes, that's what he really means - I'll leave it as it is but with more money.
Scrobs - imagine Streeting and Rayner as leaders and you double the number of empty heads. Not a pleasant thought.
How will they be charged?
The true cost of all those managers, diversity officers, car park attendants, lawyers defending malpractice cases, obese women who walk around carrying pieces of paper, dance choreographers? Please add your own experience.
Or the cost of going private, like him?
Doonhamer - how will they be charged? I don't know and can't see the NHS making it work. Bound to be means-tested with so much bureaucracy that the charges just disappear anyway.
If the NHS won't even charge health tourists, like the American woman who flew to UK, collapsed at Heathrow, had her appendix removed, enjoyed 3 days in hospital, before flying back to the USA, as it was cheaper doing that, than paying for the operation in her home State, how are they going to justify charging UK taxpayers?
Penseivat
Penseivat - I agree, I can't see it working and the uproar would be deafening.
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