Give us your wonga to keep the NHS longer

[Wanderer]

More to the point will a tenner a month actually cover the cost? I think not...

No, but it will just about cover the cost of collecting the tax and prosecuting people for non payment.

A similar example is the London congestion charge which brings in revenues of £250 million per year but costs £130 million to administer leaving very little profit for TfL. There is probably a fair amount of wastage in the collection of revenue and enforcement of the tax disc that vehicles have to display though the government are too stupid to scrap that either.

How governments ever think it's a good idea to raise tulipty little taxes here there and everywhere is way beyond me.

[MicrosoftBob]

I would pay that if I could ring up in the morning and see my GP the same day! Last time I rang up the earliest appointment they had was 4 days later, I would likely be better (or dead!) by then...

If it's anything that could be serious go straight to hospital, you will be seen quicker

[d000hg]

A similar example is the London congestion charge which brings in revenues of £250 million per year but costs £130 million to administer leaving very little profit for TfL.

£130m is quite a lot.

There is probably a fair amount of wastage in the collection of revenue and enforcement of the tax disc that vehicles have to display though the government are too stupid to scrap that either.

Except they already did.

[VectraMan]

No, but it will just about cover the cost of collecting the tax and prosecuting people for non payment.

A similar example is the London congestion charge which brings in revenues of £250 million per year but costs £130 million to administer leaving very little profit for TfL. There is probably a fair amount of wastage in the collection of revenue and enforcement of the tax disc that vehicles have to display though the government are too stupid to scrap that either.

Yes but the point of the congestion charge is to stop congestion, not to raise revenue. Even if an extra NHS tax ran at a net loss, if the end result was making the NHS operate much better, it'd be worth it.

[vetran]

If it's anything that could be serious go straight to hospital, you will be seen quicker

we did that, our little one at 6 months was coughing badly so we took her to the doctor picked up some penicillin, she would be better in a couple of days apparently. A couple of nights later she was having trouble breathing at 4am so my wife took her down to A&E she was put on oxygen & ventolene.

she recovered fine and 2 days later my wife got a call demanding to know why my wife didn't wait to go to her doctor as the A&E is for emergencies, she was quite restrained on the phone.