Patients should pay up to £20 to see their GP if the ailing NHS is to survive, a leading think-tank has claimed.
The charge would make people think twice about visiting the doctor, reducing unnecessary appointments and easing pressure on the health service, it was suggested.
The Social Market Foundation – an independent think-tank including financial experts and cross-party MPs – made the controversial proposals in a report published yesterday.
It suggested that only the poorest people in society should be entitled to free treatment to avoid inefficiency and called for prescription charges to be introduced for all pensioners.
The £7.20 prescription free is currently waived for the over-60s.
What about some of the poorest people in society who are pensioners?
And still the tattoo’d, Stella-swilling, work-dodging neds will get all the free stuff.
An estimated 450,000 failed asylum seekers in Britain are currently denied free treatment on the NHS.
However, a joint review of the policy by the Department of Health and the Home Office ruled that up to 20,000 would now be allowed free health care, including children and those who
would “otherwise be destitute”, or could not return home “through no fault of their own”.
What about pensioners who are old “through no fault of their own”?
And more to the point, who are the cunts who think all this shit up in the first place?
They should all be rounded up and slaughtered.
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Hundreds and Thousands (on the trifle of life) 