Should all people have the right of free health care?

Question

Should all people have the right of free health care?

Answer 1

Well..i think i disagree with everyone so far. In my opinion everyone should pay for health care...but at a flat rate. Immigrants included, there would be no exceptions, no special treatments. Because in all honesty, WHY do we deserve free health care? The ones in the medical profession risk their lives daily for people they dont even know, and they should be paid for it. That doesnt mean it has to be as expensive, if everyone did pay, but at reasonable affordable prices...for EVERYONE, then their wouldnt be a need for the prices to be so much like they are now.

Answer 2

all except illegal immigrants and those with less than 1 year National Insurance contributions ( not including UK nationals )

Answer 3

I believe so, but NHS tourism really pisses me off - the NHS is putting so much into people who come to this country with their health problems deliberately to get it sorted for free..

Answer 4

Yes.  The vast majority pay national insurance contributions and everyone pays tax and VAT on goods which help cover the service.  Much as we might moan about the NHS it is still the envy of the world.  Those who advocate getting rid of it have never had a serious long-term illness for which they can't get insurance - unlike America for example!

Answer 5

I don't think there is such a thing as free health care. Presumably (in a perfect world anyway) if we privatised the NHS income tax should in theory come down. The mid-high tax-paying sector of society pays for itself and the none-low tax-paying sector of society. Therefore it follows as an average tax-payer you should actually save more than private medical care would cost.

Of course I'd imagine no one is naive enough to think that the saving would end up in the tax-payers pocket. God knows where instead the money would go. Nowhere as deserving as 'free' health care for all anyway.

If you are asking should we have a socialist health system then I would have to say yes. Britain has overcooked its socialist state and I beleive if it doesn't change it will be paying for it badly in a decade or so. However I don't think the NHS is something that should change. People never choose to be ill and for that reason it would inhumane to deprive anyone who couldn't afford it of medical treatment. The NHS is probably one of the few remaining things which makes Britain a better country than America.

In terms of non tax-paying non-UK nationals abusing the NHS system, that is an issue for our weak immigration policy not our socialist health care system.

Answer 6

Society does pay for health care through taxes and it absurd to imagine that anyone at all does not pay tax [even immigrants!].

There is VAT on what we buy and excise duty of drink and cigarettes. It all goes into the "tax pot" to be used for NHS and everything that is provided.

Those who earn more and those who spend more pay more tax and support the others. That's what society is all about!

Answer 7

Yes.

Except fat ones apparently.