Time to abolish the NHS?

[centurian]

That is one of the major issues with the NI system - people like you think that you have paid into a fund that will cover you when you need it.

What has really happened is that you have paid to cover the people that needed it over the last few years. There is no money set aside to cover you now.

Paid for part of it

The rest being charged to the exploding national debt credit card.

NHS Spending has doubled in the past 10 years - sustainable under a boom, but now looking extremely expensive considering the outputs haven't doubled. In fact some areas have gone into reverse (dentists, out of hours cover, drug provision, small local hospitals etc.)

[the_duderama]

Awesome, so does this mean that I'd be spending 20% of my income on private health care insurance like the Americans whilst still paying buttloads of tax, only for them not to validate my claim because the condition or treatement is not covered?

What about the decent people who can't afford treatement, such as a friends mother who worked at the co-op all her life and then got sacked cause she was off work for 6 months with breast cancer?

Great ideas guys, keep them comming!