Helen,
My tone may have softened but unfortunately I do have some views that would probably make you wince!
Within the system that I have proposed I have tried to encapsulate all walks of life and give at least a basic help to all. I’m sorry, but I’m not obsessing with the unemployed, the low-paid or the drug-addicts children, I’ve included them, proposed to help them but I’m not making them the priority, they are not necessarily the most needy of services.
My proposed system is not perfect which I have already stated but the system at the moment is not perfect either. Health insurance healthcare systems in the world do work and work better than the UK system; France in particular is considered to have one of the best and most equitable systems based on an insurance system and private practitioners with almost no waiting time for necessary treatment.
Whilst the NHS may offer a free point of use for all, on the basis of it, is this really fair? Some people never pay into the system who get just the same level of services (theoretically, depending on your particular Trust)as people who pay into it all of their working life and may pay in thousands and thousands through their taxes.
Yes, we should (begrudgingly maybe!) help those who can’t help themselves but is it fair for the hard-working or high tax-contributors to have to wait for 2 weeks to find out if they have cancer because they are perhaps paying for treatment to others who either may not be contributing (or have never done so) to the system or even have just arrived in on a banana boat? Or even maybe, denied life-saving or chance-improving drugs because of where they live?
You can pull apart my idea but my system is probably more fair than the transformation that the NHS will probably have to go through eventually and ensure that those who are entitled to its use are those who get the benefit of it.
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