Going private for maturnity care

[TheOmegaMan]

I am not saying they should not be allowed to reproduce - only that they should pay for it. We have plenty of poorly paid migrant workers to do the menial jobs anyway.

[DodgyAgent]

There is no question that if you can afford it go to the Portland, you can watch telly and sip a G & T whilst the missus is sprogging.

[Bagpuss]

Hold on - surely all contractors agree that private health care is best - how would a socialist health care system be at all efficient or competent ?

And anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.

Who trains the private people?
Moreover most consultants work both NHS and private, where private is just a way to jump to queue not a guarantee of a better service.

I hope and suspect you are joking

[DodgyAgent]

And anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.

Have you met our now friend Causeless Delhi ? you two should get on like a house on fire.

[BrilloPad]

There is no question that if you can afford it go to the Portland, you can watch telly and sip a G & T whilst the missus is sprogging.

sprogging - or dying while the doctors are on the golf course and no cover.

[Lewis]

For some reason women (esp first timers) have a trendy notion that they should go through childbirth with minimal pain relief - they then get to the stage where they need it - usually at a ungodly hour- so the registrar has to be roused / bought in on call to put the shunt into the spine of a woman in agony, all of which causes delays.
So my advice is to get the shunt in as soon as possible upon arrival and then choose to use it or not as the situation dictates.

HTH

Not in these cases, both said they wanted it from the start. Simply under staffed units.

[TheOmegaMan]

Who trains the private people?
Moreover most consultants work both NHS and private, where private is just a way to jump to queue not a guarantee of a better service.

I hope and suspect you are joking

Joking ? It is the next logical step. We need better value for money.

Most state industries are now privatised. Education is rapidly becoming privatised at least in the tertiary sector. Roads are to be privatised. The railways are privatised. Fuel is privatised. Water is privatised.

So why not health ? Why are people so obsessed with cross-subsidy in health provision ? You pay for your dentist, you pay for your heart bypass. No pay, no new teeth.

Paying the chavs to have children just encourages them to have more children, which means more social security and higher stealth taxes.

[Stan]

Is all private healthcare that bad or just BUPA? I assumed private healthcare include maternity care and you would have better access to doctors not worse.

[gingerjedi]

There's no such thing as private healthcare when it comes to serious conditions you just get a nicer room and a choice of menu!

[BrilloPad]

There's no such thing as private healthcare when it comes to serious conditions you just get a nicer room and a choice of menu!

and fewer doctors - particularly overnight and if a good golfing day