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Post by Morgan on Jan 8, 2023 14:49:46 GMT
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly refused to say whether he uses private healthcare, insisting it is "not really relevant". Mr Sunak told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that his healthcare was "a personal choice". Nursing union leader Pat Cullen said the PM "needed to come clean as a public servant". And when asked the same question, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said he did not use private healthcare. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64202855Bloody looney question. Of course he has private health care. Can you imagine a man with his salary and wealth sitting in Outpatients waiting for a doctor? Of course not and if he'd said he didn't have private health care he would have been accused of using NHS resources when he could afford to go private. |
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Post by Handyman on Jan 8, 2023 15:21:48 GMT
Yes I agree , he and his wife can afford the best Private Medical Treatment should they need it anywhere in the world , anyone that has Private Medical Insurance is one less headache for the NHS
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Post by Steve on Jan 8, 2023 16:26:39 GMT
Yes of course he uses a private GP, he's not going to rely on the abysmal NHS service he thinks is good enough for the plebs
And he's going to so hate Kuenssberg for exposing their whole attitude to the NHS. Well done her.
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Post by Pacifico on Jan 8, 2023 18:04:13 GMT
Anyone who has a decent job has private healthcare - Sunak was a prat for not simply admitting this.
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Post by Steve on Jan 8, 2023 20:33:04 GMT
Anyone who has a decent job has private healthcare - Sunak was a prat for not simply admitting this. Most private healthcare schemes associated with work do not give access to a private GP |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2023 22:11:26 GMT
Anyone who has a decent job has private healthcare - Sunak was a prat for not simply admitting this. Sunak may or may not have medical insurance. He and his wife can afford to pay off their own bat. No need for an insurance company which is just a middle player making money. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 6:08:14 GMT
Private healthcare in this country 'rents' facilities from the NHS, adding to waiting times for ordinary people.
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Post by Toreador on Jan 9, 2023 6:12:25 GMT
Private healthcare in this country 'rents' facilities from the NHS, adding to waiting times for ordinary people. It's reciprocated. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Jan 9, 2023 7:10:26 GMT
Does ANY MP rely on the NHS ? I suspect not.
I can’t see their great aunt being left on the floor with a broken hip for 23 hours …
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jan 9, 2023 7:20:13 GMT
Sunak, according to the left:
Goes private = Rich bastard who doesn't understand ordinary people.
Uses NHS = Rich bastard stealing resources from ordinary people.
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Post by jonksy on Jan 9, 2023 7:31:26 GMT
NHS Stammer defends use of private sector despite earlier pledge Stammer has defended backing the use of the private sector to drive down waiting lists in the health service, despite his leadership pledge to “end outsourcing in the NHS”. Speaking to Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday, Stammer said: “We’re not talking about privatising the NHS. The NHS has always used elements from the private sector, GPs are an example of that.” www.thenational.scot/news/23236106.nhs-keir-starmer-defends-use-private-sector-despite-earlier-pledge/ |
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Post by johnofgwent on Jan 9, 2023 7:31:44 GMT
A couple of points I suspect I ought to come in on
First, private healthcare has changed over the last 10 to 15 years
To the statement that most schemes do not include access to a GP I would say ‘really? I get an increasing number of offers of such, from my employer, directly from a private hospital up the road and from those I insure by home and car with’.
I’ve had private DENTAL care ever since every dentist in wales told Maggie to fuck off and left the NHS. There simply isn’t an alternative and to the left leaning who claim otherwise I say come to Newport and try to find one. Blair did fuck all to address the lack of NHS dentists and the Welsh Assembly has been equally uninterested for 25 years
I had private healthcare as part of an employee benefit - taxed of course- when working for Barclays in 2004 - 2006. The cover was quickly exhausted by the outpatient fees and as I was being treated for a heart condition brought on by stress the financial debt it left gave more trouble than it was worth. I think I still owe the consultant about £500 I simply stopped paying and stopped seeking help for heart failure. Not the ideal.
I have refused the package at the bank I currently work with for the same reason.
I have on multiple occasions asked my GP to refer me or a family member in need of surgery privately to a consultant which costs a few hundred pounds for a first consultation allowing me to leapfrog the waiting list. As every one of them then says ‘I can treat you privately at a private hospital at your convenience, or treat you as an NHS patient in an NHS facility in about six weeks’
That remains the basis of a LOT of private health care insurance, a guarantee that you will see a consultant without the huge wait if the queue to see them on the NHS exceeds a time last met in 1948.
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Post by Steve on Jan 9, 2023 11:46:11 GMT
Yes John most private healthcare comes through insurance schemes often offered by employers. But the detail of those is they require referral through a GP and that initial consultation is the NHS one. I was excluding dental care which really isn't covered by the NHS anymore on 'free at point of service' even if you can find an NHS dentist. Been private dental care for over 12 years now, I see it as a sort of tax.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 12:31:10 GMT
Private healthcare in this country 'rents' facilities from the NHS, adding to waiting times for ordinary people. It's reciprocated. Yeah the private sector get the NHS to pay for its own hospital use. 😔 |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 12:33:41 GMT
Sunak, according to the left: Goes private = Rich bastard who doesn't understand ordinary people. Uses NHS = Rich bastard stealing resources from ordinary people. On the contrary. We all know he uses private health care but like most Tories he lies, or more correctly refuses to comment, about it. If people can afford private there is no problem unless private patients are 'hindering' poorer patients from receiving treatment. |
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