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08-05-2017, 03:46 PM | #1 | |||
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Imagine this scenario:
The government has set out a referendum to abolish the NHS. In its place, people with savings under a threshold (say £2k) and not in work would be eligible for free health care. As well as children under the age of 18 and senior citizens. Every other person would be required to provide themselves with health insurance or whatever they deemed sensible. How would you vote?
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08-05-2017, 03:51 PM | #2 | |||
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People could be saving for a new car, rainy day, helping their kids get to uni etc. £2k is hardly a fortune and would be gone within the first year if a person in the family has ongoing health issues. We all pay in as it is, pehaps we could be enticed into paying a bit more if we know it is ring fenced for NHS and care. |
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08-05-2017, 03:52 PM | #3 | |||
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I'm not a citizen of the UK but if I were I would vote No, health care should be a human right and a top priority for every government imo
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08-05-2017, 03:53 PM | #4 | |||
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Keep the NHS, healthcare should be free for all.
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08-05-2017, 03:54 PM | #5 | ||
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Solidly 100% against.
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08-05-2017, 04:07 PM | #6 | ||
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If any British citizen thinks that 'abolishing' the NHS would be a good idea then they're either wealthy enough that any level of medical treatment that could be necessary in their lifetime is affordable to them or they don't understand what the NHS actually is and how important it us to us.
Even if you are wealthy enough to afford 100% private healthcare if you're a decent human being you would still be strongly against ever scrapping the NHS because of the devastating effect it would have on those who need it the most. The elderly, people with Mental Health problems, the unemployed and anyone who can't afford to shell out possibly tens/hundreds of thousands of pounds when they need an operation or become seriously ill. Sadly the droves who are preparing to vote Conservative in the upcoming election seem to be missing the fact that there's nothing the tories would love more than to scrap the NHS. Last edited by JTM45; 08-05-2017 at 04:08 PM. |
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08-05-2017, 04:12 PM | #7 | |||
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08-05-2017, 04:16 PM | #8 | ||
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Anyone who isn't loaded that would vote yes is a fool.
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08-05-2017, 04:19 PM | #9 | |||
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It needs reforms
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08-05-2017, 04:20 PM | #10 | |||
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Regardless of medical insurance, which would be on par with a hefty mortgage, you will be exempt from cancer treatment or whatever, if you have suffered from that in the past.
Having had horses, I always paid the hefty insurance, even though I had one horse who's all four legs were exempt!. When my Lusitano got peritonitis and had to be operated on, the bill his insurers paid was £22,000 but because peritonitis has a tendency to reoccur, he became exempt for that sort of treatment.
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08-05-2017, 04:27 PM | #11 | ||
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It doesn't, that's just what the Tories are telling you so you'll be more inclined in letting them choke it to death.
It's struggling BECAUSE the Tories are trying to kill it, Jeremy Hunt provoking and antagonising the Junior Doctors into turning away from the NHS, the constant cutting of funding. These are all choices made by the Tories in order to privatise and shift us into a Insurance based system which benefits no one but the rich and the corporations who will profit from it all. Honestly, if you care about your future and don't want to face the potential prospect of dying of something treatable because you can't afford treatment you would have gotten on the NHS then consider your vote carefully. The horror stories that come from the US should convince anyone to fight for the NHS. Everything else in this election is white noise, the NHS is the only thing that matters. Vote wisely. |
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08-05-2017, 04:28 PM | #12 | |||
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08-05-2017, 04:31 PM | #13 | ||
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The NHS is a great thing.We are very fortunate in this country to have such a system.
I definitely think some grownup conversations need to be had on the subject as it has outgrown itself. People are living longer in part thanks to the NHS,Immigration is at an all time high and it's cost has got much higher. It would be nice to keep the NHS forever but at its current trajectory it is only going one way and that is down.It's unsustainable and will have to end at some point unless something drastic is worked out. Higher taxes possibly and reduced immigration.You can't raise taxes forever though and spending will overtake tax increases eventually. |
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08-05-2017, 04:34 PM | #14 | ||
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08-05-2017, 04:36 PM | #15 | ||
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White noise.
If the worst happens and you or a loved one develop, say, cancer. Do you want to face the prospect of not being able to afford treatment? Because like I said before, you only have to look at the US's insurance based health system if you want a glimpse into our future if the NHS dies. People die in the US all the time because they can't afford treatment. Is the prospect of that worth voting Tory just because you disagree with people getting boob jobs on the NHS? Choose who you vote for carefully, I'm not trying to score points or debate an issue or be mean here. I just want you to really think about what matters and to vote from a place of understanding which party will honestly help your situation. Would the NHS dying benefit you? |
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08-05-2017, 04:37 PM | #16 | |||
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I'd probably have a cheeky bet on 50%+ of the country voting to abolish it if this did happen irl
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08-05-2017, 04:40 PM | #17 | |||
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Also they need to ban people filling up A&E with simply treatable things like flu
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08-05-2017, 04:41 PM | #18 | |||
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08-05-2017, 04:43 PM | #19 | ||
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08-05-2017, 04:44 PM | #20 | |||
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The way it is condemned by even the people who work there for how terrible it has become. I understand that they are probably over exaggerating in the hope of government action. But i think it gives the wrong message and people might just vote for more money in their pay packet at the end of each month.
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08-05-2017, 04:48 PM | #21 | |||
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08-05-2017, 05:06 PM | #22 | |||
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08-05-2017, 05:17 PM | #23 | ||
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Because we've had the NHS all of our lives in the UK people tend to take it for granted. Because we've never really had to think about paying out of our own pockets every time we're sick or if we have an accident a lot of people forget just how good we've got it. Just imagine if we didn't have the NHS ? There'd be a lot more people not getting scans then and a lot more people would just put seeking medical help off because of the costs involved. You only have to look at the effect it had when dentists started turning NHS patients away because the government were stiffing them and not keeping their side of the deal. In most areas of the UK it's very difficult and sometimes impossible to find a Dentist who will treat you if your an NHS patient. That's why a lot of people just don't end up getting dental treatment and end up losing most of their teeth. We need the NHS now more than ever! |
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08-05-2017, 05:21 PM | #24 | |||
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Who in their right mind would want to abolish it. The NHS is one of this country's best achievements
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08-05-2017, 05:23 PM | #25 | |||
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GP surgeries GP Our-of-Hours services Walk in centres Urgent care and minor injury units Diagnostic services (including pathology and imaging) Maternity care Advice about which services are commissioned Decisions about patients are prioritised Non-emergency surgery(including treatment centres) whole hospitals, including A&E Community nursing Up to forty other community services (including podiatry, diabetes and physiotherapy) Ambulance services Prison health Mental health services pathology and surgery So there's not much left to sell. All of these things above are 'for profit' businesses and many are failing because it wasn't the golden egg the government promised it to be. At least not yet. Doctors are outraged because the lack of staff and masses of paperwork to ensure treating Mr Brown is financially viable has taken over from what we once had. The NHS is as much as finished. All what's left is a few small crumbs The real money comes when (and this is in the final detail) the government no longer pays (through taxes) a subsidy for each patient. When that part is privatized, that's when we start buying medical insurance. The whole things been mapped out down to the finest detail. In the mean time, we the public are buying the lie.
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