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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 749743" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>The issue with the NHS is the expansion of services it offers as free. As medical technology and practice has gained additional techniques and knowledge, so they are expected on the NHS. </p><p></p><p>Should expensive cancer drugs that cost a fortune but offer only one or two months extra life be free on the NHS? Should gastric bypass surgery be offered to morbidly obese people who could be treated by extreme lchf or left to kill themselves by eating? Should plastic surgery to improve self confidence be funded? Should IVF be paid for? </p><p></p><p>All expensive procedures, none of which existed when the NHS was founded and the principles of what it does were set up. Should any procedure or medication that one could consider a privilege rather than a necessity to remain alive be NHS funded? That's one of the items at the heart of the problem. What can be done has expanded dramatically. The percentage of the tax pot to cover it hasn't. It has to break somewhere!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 749743, member: 30007"] The issue with the NHS is the expansion of services it offers as free. As medical technology and practice has gained additional techniques and knowledge, so they are expected on the NHS. Should expensive cancer drugs that cost a fortune but offer only one or two months extra life be free on the NHS? Should gastric bypass surgery be offered to morbidly obese people who could be treated by extreme lchf or left to kill themselves by eating? Should plastic surgery to improve self confidence be funded? Should IVF be paid for? All expensive procedures, none of which existed when the NHS was founded and the principles of what it does were set up. Should any procedure or medication that one could consider a privilege rather than a necessity to remain alive be NHS funded? That's one of the items at the heart of the problem. What can be done has expanded dramatically. The percentage of the tax pot to cover it hasn't. It has to break somewhere! [/QUOTE]
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