I don't know if this has been mentionted all ready but I am with bupa for my health care and what a difference. you get seen quick and if I need to see a doctor I can when I like, it does cost a bit of money but it is worth it and with the way the national health service is I think more people are going to get bupa as things are so much more quick, so is any one else with bupa or a different health health care ?
Wow Jake - I think you've hit a whole new level!
Me thinks the NHS should be scrapped & everything become private. That way you would save a lot of time wasters & probably heaps of lives. I would be happy to pay an extra £20 a month to insure when I did need hospital treatment I would get it.
I refuse though to pay for shite NHS & Private.
The only trouble with private healthcare is that then anyone who's poor dies.
Actually, I've just negated my own argument.
Scrap the NHS! Private healthcare is the way forward! 
I agree, you get people from different countrys come over and use the NHS then go all the way home again that is why the NHS does not have enough money. I have not got a issue with them useing it but I know a lot of people that it makes mad.
Quote: Aaron @ February 7, 2008, 2:54 PMScrap the NHS! Private healthcare is the way forward!
I honestly don't know my arse from my elbow when it comes to things such as this, so that must make me perfectly eligible for an opinion
Can you not make half private and the other NHS? Obviously not in a Steptoe chalk down the middle typa way, but you know?
Eh you what? Plenty of people - myself included - are covered by private healthcare on a 'just in case' type basis, but use the NHS most of the time. Is that what you mean?
P.S. It wasn't chalk - it was walls. 
Haha oh yeah, I haven't seen that episode in years.
And what I meant is, depending on the type of treatment needed you would have to pay or not.
Ah right. Well, that's pretty much what does happen for most people. For example, if it's relatively minor stuff, then they'll happily go through the NHS. But if it's big, or something the NHS won't pay for, like Jordan, then you've got to go private. I also seem to recall a proposal at the last general election from the Conservatives that if a patient chose to go private, then they could receive up to half of the cost of the treatment from the NHS. Which seemed like a bloody good idea to me, but I don't think Adam's lot could get their heads around it.
Quote: Aaron @ February 7, 2008, 2:54 PMThe only trouble with private healthcare is that then anyone who's poor dies.
Actually, I've just negated my own argument.
Scrap the NHS! Private healthcare is the way forward!
One day you may get mugged and beaten, Aaron. Then you'll be left badly needing health care but with no money to pay for it.
Oh the irony, I would laugh and laugh 
Quote: jake how @ February 7, 2008, 3:21 PMI agree, you get people from different countrys come over and use the NHS then go all the way home again that is why the NHS does not have enough money.
I think xenophobic members should be banned.
Quote: Aaron @ February 7, 2008, 5:29 PMI also seem to recall a proposal at the last general election from the Conservatives that if a patient chose to go private, then they could receive up to half of the cost of the treatment from the NHS. Which seemed like a bloody good idea to me, but I don't think Adam's lot could get their heads around it.
One day he's sayig you shouldn't interfere with the market next day he wants to sudsidise health care 
Quote: ian_w @ February 7, 2008, 6:33 PM
One day you may get mugged and beaten, Aaron. Then you'll be left badly needing health care but with no money to pay for it.
Oh the irony, I would laugh and laugh
In case your eyes failed (maybe you should consult a private optician ), I said I have private health insurance already. Har. Har.
Ok, so maybe it'll happen just after it runs out and you haven't yet renewed it.
Again, I would laugh and laugh
I never realised that BUPA covered mental health issues.