adrian29uk said:For a start we have people coming in to this country who are using the NHS and have hardly paid in to the system as regards tax. This costs the NHS money.
Then you have people who have paid their taxes all their life and getting poor service and having to wait to get treatment.
Then you have people here illegally not paying Tax but using the NHS. If someone is sick they need to be treated.
Agencies how much are they making out of the NHS by providing key workers?
So this is why we will eventually have to pay. How many people have come to this country in the last 10 years?
And how many people are using the services?
If you could pay £10.00 a week for NHS and know that
1) waiting times would be down
2) you could see a doctor when you wanted
3) hospital where clean modern places, staff
Would you pay it? I think I would.
adrian29uk said:For people on benefits then everyone should get treatment.
Currently the NHS is debt, so paying for it is the only way forward.
I would pay tommorow If I had to, in the knowledge that the healthcare I receive would be the very best.
I know we pay enough taxes already, but I just cannot see how the NHS can survive with the amount of people using it.
Some people cant even get life saving drugs due to the cost.
Do they have this problem in France? Apparently you can get treatment straight away and the hospitals are modern and everyone gets treated.
Why is this?
Tom Hark said:Really hope the NHS as a whole doesn't go the way of NHS Dentistry. The NHS receives a kicking left right and centre that it really doesn't deserve and for all its faults, it is infinitely preferable to the US system of Healthcare. Maybe, for sure, charge for things like missed appointments at doctors, cos not charging for that is just abuse of the system, or kick violent drunks who attack NHS staff out of the system or fine them heavily. But the basic concept of the NHS is SOUND and the UK should be proud of it.