gbswales
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It should not stop funding - period! As medical knowledge advances we must be prepared, even be anxious, to pay higher taxes to support these advances which we may all need to benefit from some day. The taxation system is the one that most closely replicates the ability to pay (much improvement needed at the top and lower ends) However there are in my view areas we could control to improve funding.
1) Giving hospitals the ability to generate funding from the more wealthy by having better "hotel" facilities for in patients- this must be about improved accommodation and not different levels of care
2) Private health care should be subjected to a heavy tax levy in order to discourage it except where it is absolutely necessary - most people use it as a means to get treated more quickly and that is clearly unfair
3) Drug companies should not have carte blance to generate profits for shareholders - they should have a strict code of conduct enforced to ensure that drugs and medicine supplied through the NHS is sold for what it costs to produce (plus reasonable profit) and not as a free market
4) There should be a legal requirement that all decisions be taken by medical practitioners and that any decision not to treat on cost grounds is clearly notified as such with a right of patient appeal to a board predominantly made up of national health doctors
We, and our cowering politicians, must get off this "low taxation" bandwaggon if we are ever to ensure that essential public services are run to everyone's advantage
1) Giving hospitals the ability to generate funding from the more wealthy by having better "hotel" facilities for in patients- this must be about improved accommodation and not different levels of care
2) Private health care should be subjected to a heavy tax levy in order to discourage it except where it is absolutely necessary - most people use it as a means to get treated more quickly and that is clearly unfair
3) Drug companies should not have carte blance to generate profits for shareholders - they should have a strict code of conduct enforced to ensure that drugs and medicine supplied through the NHS is sold for what it costs to produce (plus reasonable profit) and not as a free market
4) There should be a legal requirement that all decisions be taken by medical practitioners and that any decision not to treat on cost grounds is clearly notified as such with a right of patient appeal to a board predominantly made up of national health doctors
We, and our cowering politicians, must get off this "low taxation" bandwaggon if we are ever to ensure that essential public services are run to everyone's advantage