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Subject: AW: Why We Don't Want "Free" Medical Care Posted on: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:30:43 +0000 (UTC)

>>Patients "cannot, in one episode of treatment, be treated on the
>>N.H.S. and then allowed, as part of the same episode and the same
>>treatment, to pay money for more drugs," the health secretary, Alan
>>Johnson, told Parliament.
>
> And why not??

There is no reason.

The German health insurance system has stopped paying for "everything", but
the consequence is that you have to pay the difference yourself - up to a
certain percentage of your income.

It is just plain rubbish if the NHS insists "either we pay what we consider
appropriate or you pay the lot and we do not pay a penny".