people who say the NHS is free?

[Sallygoround631]

It isn't free. This is truly absurd. It is funded by us, and always has been.

I see this so often on MN, and in all seriousness too, as if it is a free gift the government give to us.
I've read more than one poster suggesting we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic if the MHS wan't 'free', and that the US healthcare system would benefit us!
WTAF?
Because the US has never had an obesity issue....

How can anyone of adult age in the uk think the NHS costs us nothing?
Christ, and you wonder why the government takes the piss.

@echt

And your anecdata adds up to precisely 11 people. Not representative of much at all.

If you can't base your sweeping statement about the number of people paying twice, on some evidence, of course I'll ask. hmm

Its in the public domain fgs. "Evidence" (Whatever you mean by that - civil court or criminal standard? Or enough to satisfy picky randoms on t'internet?) isn't required of information in the public domain. Are you seriously denying that people do have to pay for private care because the NHS won't or is too slow? You are saying that doesn't actually happen?

I'd say it happens so bloody often that its far more likely the burden of proof would reverse and you should prove that it doesn't.

Why on earth does the private sector exist in this country alongside the NHS? Do you actually believe that only millionaires use it? Many private consultants even offer convenient little payment plans alongside their medical advice.

Sheesh. You are actually arguing that people don't resort to going private because the NHS won't treat them!

Are you an NHS manager, since this seems to be the tautological reasoning commonly deployed in the NHS to deny liability.