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Private healthcare can be from as little as £4 per week: https://www.healthinsurancequote.co....yAAEgL0VfD_BwE
I don't smoke nor drink, but I think if you add up the amount people pay for their cigarettes each month or how much they spend on things such as video games .... they could have private healthcare insurance instead. Encouraging self-discipline is important for empowering people in life (so they have a warrior mentality rather than a victim mentality,) and it's great that England has one of the lowest smoking rates in Europe and the drinking rate falls each year too.
I don't think the prices for medications should ever be as high as the prices in the U.S. (that's a rip-off and daylight robbery.)
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One of my friend's said she once stayed in the exclusive Priory clinic, (a private hospital in London that often treats celebrities and supermodels who have mental breakdowns, stress, depression, addiction problems, and other private patients with mental problems.)
She said the treatment service was similar there to NHS hospitals - except the rooms and food was more luxurious in the expensive Priory.
She said the staff at The Priory were quick to give her the tranquilliser medications she wanted, and they kept her inside the place for quite a while, (each night she stayed sick they were making more profits.)
After several months inside the place with little progress, she said she felt extremely annoyed that her mother was paying a lot of money to them for her stay, and she felt they were milking money out of her mother. She said she would never use private hospitals again as a result.
NHS hospitals tend to treat the urgent patients first and release them from hospitals a.s.a.p. due to bed shortages.
They're reluctant to give out medications (sleeping pills, painkillers, etc,) unless people really do medically need the free prescription drugs.
The U.S. consumes 80% of the world's painkillers and they even advertise prescription pills on TV in the U.S.
I think regulations and healthcare cover that is reasonably affordable for most people is a good idea (with regulation caps/limits on the prices to prevent greedy companies from excessively overcharging unwell people).... along with NHS hospitals for those who can't afford a weekly or monthly fee. Either way the money for healthcare funding has to come from somewhere. Higher taxes to fund free healthcare for everyone - or lower taxes and the option for people to fund their own healthcare.
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Which drives up prices. Actually: doctors are paid to prescribe as much as possible. It's a triangular game between big pharma (who sells as much as possible), doctors (who gets paid by big pharma, their patients AND the insurers) and the insurers who use all prescriptions to drive up their prices.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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Yes, one of my fears with private healthcare is that companies can get greedy with the prices... because healthcare is a necessity and essential in life so companies could take advantage of fleecing their patients. There should be caps on the prices to prevent being excessively charged.
The U.S. has a serious problem with the amount of pills prescribed to paying patients.
I think it's best we have a national service to regulate things better and prevent the pitfalls and traps of private fee-paying services. The NHS has its downside too with long waiting lists - although urgent patients are given priority in being treated first.
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I don't think there should be an opt-out. Personally, I quite like the idea of mixing and matching: I believe in a national insurance like in Japan and in maximum prices (but not too strictly enforced because the Japanese really squeeze it) and in having a system of private doctors and hospitals combined with French-style rest periods (including sending long-term patients for recovery to places along the coast - like sending them to Southern France). From the French model, I would also adopt freedom in choosing your medication: in France even the most experimental medications are reimbursed. Plus, I would combine it with the Dutch idea that long-term sick or handicapped people can select their own caregivers which are then paid for by the government. But I would cut out the middleman -those "bureaus" and "agencies" that have caregivers work for them and then "lease" them to you. I view then as corrupt. I think it should be much more 1-1 and personal.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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