It is a good idea but it needs to stop wasting money

it could be improved for sure but there isn't a better model out there for funding healthcare that I'm aware of.

private healthcare thru your employers is the same difference in terms of your take home money with exception of having to deal with a for profit insurer who wants to pay out as little as possible.

fu*k that.

And Cuba... Go figure

Seconded

You wouldn't refuse treatment from a foreign born doctor or nurse would you?

Good maths, that man.

Hundreds of millions at least

Socialized healthcare should have an opt out choice.

That's one thing, but it will always have the inherent inefficiencies of any single payer system.

I don't know the prices are in the UK but here my partners private health insurance was E2400 last year

Why should they give them a discount? As you said they are the only buyer and they're forced to buy. I'd also rip them off if I were selling them something they needed and I knew I had a guaranteed buyer. Once you deviate from the universal laws of supply and demand and enact a forced socialized system you get these inefficiencies.

It isn't stupidity it is the old
'' it is not my money so fk it'' attitude

How much would you rip off buyers for? As much as possible? Do you agree with Martin Shkreli's hike in drugs prices? @kim

As much as I could get away with legally. Absolutely.

it isn't even that, there is a list that shows were one nhs authority pays 300 million a year more for ten products than the neighbouring authority, when this was pointed out the response was, from the total nhs budget it doesn't matter it is a drop in the ocean, that is just one authority n just ten products, as i said it is a ''fk it it is not my money'' attitude

True, you get this attitude from lazy, inept public sector workers. It should be made much more easy to fire them, no public sector unions, salaries of NHS buyers dependent on the savings they make the NHS. Enact these rules and you'll save the NHS billions overnight.

NHS spends on 80 million a year on paracetamol prescriptions
Over 20 million prescriptions a year issued for medicine that can be bought for as little as 19p in the supermarket
This year 22 million prescriptions for paracetamol were written at a cost to tax payers of over 80 million pounds an average cost of 3.67 per prescription.

This is a 13 per cent increase on last year when 73.5million was spent on the medicine, Government figures issued in a written answer have shown.

Analysis of official figures show that at least 85 million prescriptions for the mild painkiller have been issued since 2010 despite the fact that supermarkets and pharmacies across the country offer the medicine for a matter of pennies.

Analysis of Government figures reveals the cost of paracetamol prescriptions has been steadily rising over the last five years with the Government spending at least 282million over the course of this parliament prescribing the medicine.
Supermarkets Asda and Aldi sell 16 500g paracetamol caplets for 19p and Boots the chemist offer 16 tablets for 25p. Meanwhile Tesco sells packets for 23p and Sainsburys for 30p.
what a fkn waste

I'd sack anyone paying silly money for common / easily available products
there is no excuse

simple fact of life, people are greedy n you can't trust anyone.
and charities are mostly shyte these days anyway