'The evidence we have for charging patients shows that, even with exemptions in place, a fee to see the doctor widens health inequalities by deterring the poor and vulnerable from seeking help.' ✍️ wanderingwelch writes for MetroOpinion
Sajid Javid advocates introducing fees, to ‘help with the allocation of limited resources’
The main thing I learnt from all this was just how important travel insurance – and, on a larger scale, free healthcare – is. It’s why I fiercely opposeHis idea isn’t new. Debates over NHS payments have raged since the creation of the service, and the evidence we have for charging patients shows that, even with exemptions in place,
24 hours later, the whole medical team was summoned over the tannoy to her cabin, to find her in extremis from a condition that could have been prevented had we only seen her earlier. A cruise ship is a microcosm of society and I believe all these examples will play out on a wider scale if fees are introduced to the NHS. The unintended consequences will far outweigh the financial gains .
The lad in his 20s who worried about a black mark on his fingernail – which turned out to be dirt, and which I removed for him . For me it may have seemed unnecessary, but who is the judge of that? If he felt reassured that the black spot wasn’t cancer then to him it was money well spent.
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