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Wes Streeting (in the Times earlier this month via today's Guardian):
'We’ve got to identify a system of funding for healthcare that is more effective than the one we have currently got, and at the same time carries those who can’t afford to pay'.
To me this sounds like a;
a basic safety net for the poor;
a full spectrum, pay for use NHS for the bulk of the population; and
a quicker(?) private health care system for the rich?
This is not the NHS people want or voted for!
@ChrisMayLA6 the most effective funding system is called taxation, it ensures everyone pays according to their ability to pay. Every other way is less effective, though social insurance, based on a fixed percentage of your income extracted at source, comes close as though it pays and independent body to fund the service, a bit like student loans, it is simply relabeled taxation, with an added profit/cost load applied.
It's the false mantra "Private good, Public bad" again, Police and Army next.
Yes, we're on the same page