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Not all PC doctors, just ones who choose to preach on twitter about saving lives and then use their skills in a field where lives are explicitly not saved. It’s bizarre.

Not Rachel Clarke again. She does a lot of preaching about saving lives for a doctor who works in palliative care.

Ultimately, if people are happy to list in NHS waiting lists for months on end then be my guest but I can guarantee you that if you can afford, joining a private medical insurer is one of the best products money can buy.

And I want us to have that here. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the NHS as it is, I’m just saying too many people are using it. In the UK, 11% of the population have private medical insurance. In Italy it’s almost half and in France it’s nearly two-thirds. The UK spends about 50% more per head on state healthcare than the other to (€4,500 per person per year compared to €3,000 in those two countries) but the NHS is charged with treating significantly more people than either of those two healthcare systems. Take the UK’s €4,500 per head, but only using it for 89% of the population, suddenly it’s just over €5,000 Italy are spending €3,000 per head but only half the population use it. So €6,000 per head. France are also spending €3,000 per head but only 1/3 of people use it. So €9,000 per head. Suddenly it’s very easy to see why both these countries have better healthcare systems and better life expectancies than us. They have relatively well funded state healthcare but the middle classes tend to provide for themselves and remove the strain on the system, and suddenly it becomes a much better system for poorer people.

What you need to understand is that the benefit is in the competition in the sector. If you’re paying BUPA £70 a month and you’re not getting good value for it, you’ll simply leave and go to a competitor like vitality. Hike up tax and fund the NHS more and they have zero incentive to provide a good product. France and Italy, two comparable European countries, absolutely shit on us for life expectancy and both of them have hybrid public/private healthcare systems. Too many people just hear “private sector” and immediately jump to the conclusion that we’re going to end up like the US charging every Tom, Dick and Harry £20k for an ambulance ride and some medium grade painkillers.

Ah, the dangerous experiment c**ts are back

Nothing to do with covid, I’m talking about long term There is very limited benefit to going in to an office to sit and work at a desk all day but a lot of benefits to having meetings face to face

This is 100% the correct route to go down. Ive moved all my meetings to the 2 days that I’m in the office.

You want to go through one of the private insurers that have their own GPs

It would actually be better for everyone if more middle class people had private health insurance. The customers themselves not only get treated more quickly, but they reduce NHS waiting times for others by not clogging up resources. I’m not arguing for a removal or even a scaling back of the NHS I just wish more people would choose to go private for certain things.

I have read that the boosters are unlikely to wane anywhere near as quickly as the 2-dose regime (someone I read about had antibody levels in the 20’s after 1 dose, 100ish after the second and then like 15,000 after the booster) Fauci is saying Pfizer is effectively a 3 dose regime

I could ring up BUPA today, get a private GP appointment on Monday and be referred to see a specialist by the end of the week. Would be waiting months for that level of care on the useless NHS.

Private sector is more efficient

I won't win many fans for saying this, but the NHS has become something it was never really intended to be, and the levels of service it aims to provide are completely unsustainable. I do think it should be normalised for most working adults to have private medical insurance through BUPA, Vitality or one of the many other providers. Such organisations can provide round the clock GP appointments, fast referrals to see specialists, a choice of which specialist to see, and in many cases they offer practical health advice to reduce their care costs (e.g. Vitality will reward those who attend a gym with free cinema tickets and weekly coffees) The NHS was never created so that every mum and dad in the country could take little Johnny to the doctor every time he sneezes and having near-total reliance on it is never going to work with the tax levels in the UK. You'd have to hike up tax massively to properly fund the system. IMO the NHS should provide emergency hospital care, and then a basic service of other treatments for those who genuinely can't afford to pay like £70 a month for private medical insurance, or those who insurers won't touch due to previous health problems. I'm not arguing against the existence of the NHS by any means (US healthcare is horrific), but it's completely unsustainable to expect an all signing all dancing public healthcare system in a country of relatively low taxes.

What an absolute disgrace. Anyone who can afford it should join BUPA as soon as possible.

These morons won’t stopped until we are all forced to stay in individual bedrooms in solitary confinement all day with the army delivering essential supplies to everyone. And no doubt we’ll be forced to wear a mask and hazmat suit to avoid breathing out the virus through the window. c**ts.

It amazes me how many people enjoy the idea of the public being forced to treat their trip to tesco as if they are visiting the site of the Chernobyl disaster. Get face nappy mandates fired in the bin.

Fuck off

Boosters for the whole population IMO to really deliver the knockout blow.

I don’t know what to say to someone who doesn’t bother getting their heart attack seen to out of dear of catching a pretty much bog standard respiratory virus. Definition of a Darwin Award and a complete inability to assess risk.

Absolutely no one shouldn’t be seen because of a heart attack. They should prioritise all of that over covid for sure.

If Rachel Clarke was that concerned with saving lives she would get out of palliative care hospices and go work on the front line, tbh.

Surely the logic is that vulnerable people should be nowhere near a 10k capacity indoor gig?

It’s just fake SAGE trying to make out that any deaths are a problem

This is my issue with people who think it’s wrong not to wear a mask in a shop or on public transport. You state there there is a very much minimal chance of you having (and therefore passing on) covid when you went to your gig. I completely agree with you. Between you not having symptoms and testing negative on lateral flows, I think it’s a completely valid conclusion that you are highly unlikely to have covid at that point in time. Now, I’m getting the train in to town after work tonight to have a few drinks with a friend and watch the champions league in the pub. I, like you, feel fit and well, and I, like you, have tested negative on lateral flow tests both earlier today and on two other occasions this week. Why the hell should I wear a mask on the train tonight?