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To think putting vat on private healthcare when many people use it because the NHS won't treat them is monstrously cruel

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DervlaGlass · 30/09/2025 08:10

I know so many people who have had to pay for cancer diagnostics or new joints because they couldn't obtain care from the NHS. Not rich people - people who have to take out bank loans to fund it.

What is wrong with labour.

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twistyizzy · 30/09/2025 08:34

Streeting is bank rolled by private healthcare, he won't let it happen without a fight.
However it would be a consistent position alongside taxing education.

coolmum123 · 30/09/2025 08:32

Jc2001 · 30/09/2025 08:31

Rubbish. I would say a huge majority of people who have private health cover have it because it's a perk through their work. Nothing to do with being elitest. Stop projecting your own sense of inferiority.

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MissyB1 · 30/09/2025 08:32

Soontobe60 · 30/09/2025 08:27

Most people pay for private education and healthcare because they see it as an elitist thing to do. Let’s be honest here, they think they’re better than the rest of the plebs because they have more money.

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Not these days im afraid! Often now its out of of sheer necessity. That's the state of our public services now.

Jc2001 · 30/09/2025 08:31

Soontobe60 · 30/09/2025 08:27

Most people pay for private education and healthcare because they see it as an elitist thing to do. Let’s be honest here, they think they’re better than the rest of the plebs because they have more money.

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Rubbish. I would say a huge majority of people who have private health cover have it because it's a perk through their work. Nothing to do with being elitest. Stop projecting your own sense of inferiority.

Soontobe60 · 30/09/2025 08:27

MissyB1 · 30/09/2025 08:22

Well apparently Wes Streeting has ruled it out, it won't be happening. But to be honest it was totally wrong to do it to private education too, plenty of people pay for private education because the state system cannot meet their kids needs, same problem as healthcare.

Most people pay for private education and healthcare because they see it as an elitist thing to do. Let’s be honest here, they think they’re better than the rest of the plebs because they have more money.

Notonthestairs · 30/09/2025 08:27

Streeting has ruled it out.

MyDownstairsLooisHaunted · 30/09/2025 08:27

Isn't that the same argument for parents of SEN children sending their child to private school because there's no decent state provision?

Bit hypocritical to say it's okay for one choice but not the other.

SoftCyanWool · 30/09/2025 08:24

I use a private provider for Mounjaro. I’ve lost over 100lbs. I’ve saved the NHS a ton of money by preventing my condition getting worse.

I pay VAT.

MissyB1 · 30/09/2025 08:22

Well apparently Wes Streeting has ruled it out, it won't be happening. But to be honest it was totally wrong to do it to private education too, plenty of people pay for private education because the state system cannot meet their kids needs, same problem as healthcare.

Bubblesgun · 30/09/2025 08:22

I had my cancer treatments 11 yrs ago provately because that GP refused me a mammogram
on thr NHS. I was grade 3 but luckily stage 1.
i had mastectomy, chemo then radio and the effing horrible tamoxifen.

i saw the bills. It was upward £150k nearly £200k 10 yes ago.

then a few years after we received from the NHS that because I didnt cost the NHS i could claim back £400 per chemos (I had 32), a couple of grands for my surgery, and 300 per radio sessions.
i kid you not.

we didnt claim the money. We were shocked. I couldnt believe i was offered that when the NHS is struggling and in its knees.

so before putting the vat, i would remove all that sh…t. It s my choice to pay for a private health insurance, it wasnt my choice to go private but to be honest i wpuld have done because i dint trust the NHS. The way the money isnt managedin the NHS in an efficient way is frankly flabbergasting and sad

Optimist1 · 30/09/2025 08:17

HoskinsChoice · 30/09/2025 08:12

But it isn't happening. Wouldn't it be better to winge about stuff thats real rather than the fairy stories you read in the tabloids?

Exactly.

You're combining two entirely different types of medical need in one sweeping statement, @DervlaGlass . Get your facts straight.

HoskinsChoice · 30/09/2025 08:12

But it isn't happening. Wouldn't it be better to winge about stuff thats real rather than the fairy stories you read in the tabloids?