"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 28/06/2016 22:22, James Wilkinson wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:44:16 +0100, polygonum
wrote:

On 28/06/2016 21:30, James Wilkinson wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:24:21 +0100, dennis@home

wrote:

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2016/...-91537224.html



The NHS is a drain on our taxes and should be closed down.

Are you going to fund all your health needs out of your own cash?

Are you going to buy an insurance policy that covers all your health
needs?

Whichever, have you any idea how much it will cost you in actual money
terms?

In my entire life, the only thing the NHS fixed for me was a couple of
broken bones. That's a lot less than my tax contributions to the NHS.
I would much rather have paid for the bones from my own pocket.

Except that you don't know what medical needs you may suddenly have and
which could be totally unaffordable. To protect against that you would
have to take out insurance.

But you are free to just accept the fact that you will die if you don't.

Some people with existing health conditions wouldn't be able to afford
insurance; some people would lose their jobs and be unable to afford
insurance; those on low incomes could afford nothing; elderly people would
have massively loaded premiums that they could not afford.

Just think of the NHS as health insurance that does not load premiums for
exisitng conditions, any conditions that you may develop in the future or
your age; spreads the premiums across everyone's earnings on an ability to
pay basis and does not include an element of profit, so doesn't need to
charge even higher premiums.