NHS - up to 49% for private patients

[Barry Fish]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16337904

Like the way this one has hit the headlines during a period when no one is paying attention... Good time to break bad news...

I think the idea is disgusting... Although it 'might' bring in extra money there is no doubt waiting list are going to rocket...

Glad I have private medical insurance as this is going to fuck up the NHS big time...

[kaosmark2]

It's okay, Dave and his mates can skip the queues.

[MrZigster]

This is from the letters page of The Independent.

Ray Wilkes is clearly too young ever to have lived in a socialist state. I did, from 1945 till 1951, and I was perfectly happy. This was the government which, among other reforms, established the NHS, made grammar schools and universities accessible to those on low incomes and took measures to ensure a more equitable distribution of wealth. It was led by a mild-mannered lawyer by the name of Clement Attlee.

Mr Wilkes might also like to ponder the fact that we do, in effect, now live in a totalitarian state.

We are governed by a coalition of bankers and shareholders, on behalf of whose profits our political leadership of Cameron, Osborne, Clegg, Miliband and Balls is, coincidentally, at this very moment busy dismantling Attlee's achievements.

Trevor Walshaw