geoff wrote:

Well, the bottom line that I was hoping to get to was that the
proportion of the NI stamp which goes to dentists is not beyond the
resources of most people

What has NI got to do with it these days? The NHS is funded out of
general taxation, and NI is treated as such in most respects. Any
concept of targeting NI contributions at either healthcare or pension
provision vanished years ago.

The amount that you pay for private health care at the level you say you
receive is well and truly beyond what most people could afford

Unless the money the government currently spend on running and
micromanaging the NHS were spent on providing health insurance for all
perhaps?


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Cheers,

John.

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