Private Healthcare...

[kingandy2nd]

Sorry that's so big, but I don't understand how @ellal can blame the woes of the NHS (or an ageing society generally) on those buying private medical insurance

 

[Dangee]

She’s a rabid lefty. Ignore her.

 

[SirGalahad]

Within this decade you will ALL need private healthcare, or suffer the consequences.

Why? Is this based on some sound economic analysis.

Look at the US system which it seems so many idiots on here champion. They spend more than double what we do for the same outcomes. The US spends 25% of its healthcare costs on admin. The NHS its about 8%.

So you have private health insurance and you get ill. Will you first spend time making a claim and seeing if you are covered and what if it's it limited? Will you then spend time calling and researching to see who will give you the best deal, all the while your illness deteriorates.

It's why the US had to make Emergency treatment free. A person who is faced with an emergency isn't going to be calling their insurer whilst they are bleeding out. The problem the US now faces is that as insurance costs rise, people cannot afford it so when they are dropping dead they end up in Emergency rooms with far more complications than if they had been treated earlier.

The free market is great for providing certains goods and services, healthcare isn't one of them. This doesn't mean you cannot have private health care but on a national scale a fully privatised system end up being more costly.

 

[teaboyjim]

Why? Is this based on some sound economic analysis. Look at the US system which it seems so many idiots on here champion. They spend more than double what we do for the same outcomes. The US spends 25% of its healthcare costs on admin. The NHS its about 8%.

The US system is a good example of why to avoid all private healthcare

 

[EddieM]

One hopes that the pandemic has shown the value of a centralised national health service As stated before, I'd happily stump up a bit extra for it.

 

[durhamplumber]

Healthcare is paid for by those in work (and paying NI/taxes) for mainly the older generations that need it's services the most...

And the older people who have paid in for decades longer.

 

[teaboyjim]

One hopes that the pandemic has shown the value of a centralised national health service As stated before, I'd happily stump up a bit extra for it.

I'd be happy to stump up a bit more as well

 

[SirGalahad]

I'd be happy to stump up a bit more as well

Just tax the wealthy landowners and renty side of the economy.

 

[teaboyjim]

There's lots of ways they can get more tax revenue without it hurting the less well off

 

[ellal]

And the older people who have paid in for decades longer.

I guess you just don't get the intergenerational aspect of a NATIONAL health service!

 

[Charlie George]

Labour councillor had a vaccination done privately, illegally.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-56262712

 

[JohnD]

And the older people who have paid in for decades longer.

you mean in the sense that children, who have never paid tax or NI, should not receive healthcare?

 

[ellal]

you mean in the sense that children, who have never paid tax or NI, should not receive healthcare?

DP doesn't understand that the younger generations will (hopefully if it's not fully privatised) keep the system going for those who claim the most - namely the wrinklies!

Mind you, the 'virus' does have it's benefits...

"The amount the government has to spend on state pensions will fall by £1.5bn by 2022, because of over-65s dying of Covid, forecasts suggest."

Just a shame the 'virus' didn't appear in 2015!

 

[Trazor]

Mind you, the 'virus' does have it's benefits...

"The amount the government has to spend on state pensions will fall by £1.5bn by 2022, because of over-65s dying of Covid, forecasts suggest."

Just a shame the 'virus' didn't appear in 2015!

What an ugly post by an ugly minded poster.

 

[Mottie]

pointless goading