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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
The NHS is one of the most efficient healthcare services in the world, though, and FAR more effecient than - for example - the insurance-based US system. This has been written about so many times that I have to assume anyone who still thinks that the NHS is (comparatively) inefficient is simply parroting what they've heard, rather than speaking from any knowledge of the actual running costs.
I also find it somewhat hilarious that most people would recoil in horror at the idea of their taxes being raised by, say, £30 a month to directly fund the NHS... clearly having absolutely no idea how much private health insurance would be costing them if the NHS was gone (hint: it's a LOT more than £30 a month).
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Really strong points.
Something that should be very heavily thought about.