Why would Reform voters accept that they will scrap the NHS?

[NEGUY82]

Even when you present them with pretty undeniable proof they wants to do it they just say "lefty propaganda, he said he won't" - well of course he says he won't it would cost him the election.

It’s not easy to just ‘privatise’ the NHS. It would take years of bureaucracy, tendering, and negotiations. Not to mention the trade unions would be against it.

Reform haven’t said they want to get rid of the NHS. They want the private sector to work alongside it with an insurance. No one will be left untreated.

Anyone who has pet insurance will see how that will work out if Reform are given enough time in government.

Go 2 rescue Kittens insured both £20 per month each

So that insurance has been useful with a bite check, the other a bruised paw. Of course you still have to pay the excess

2 years on the insurance is £30 each but again came in handy as one needed its teeth cleaned and its fairly expensive. However, it has a minor gum problem so going forward that will not be covered

As they get older the insurance will go up.

Imagine that for humans plus in America a lot of insurance is linked to a job lose it temporarily at the wrong time and you are screwed. We have all seen the friends one when it was a big joke when they were not insured. They put those stories in for a reason its a comedy but the reality is not funny

A lot of people are not bothered either because they have some private cover through work - which when push comes to shove may not be enough.

Or they think reducing illegal immigrants will suddenly turn their lives around. They expect a magic wand which no PM has but stirring up hatred and the divide and rule politics are morally bereft.

Between them, my parents spent 72 years working in the NHS before they retired in 1998. They both said it was a crumbling mess then.

Money has been thrown at the NHS, but does not seem to improve the service in terms of expedience. The treatment provided is good, but slow to deliver.

@ukathleticscoach2012

Again, the US system isn't the only alternative. Lots of healthcare systems in other countries that offer co-pay or state backed insurance schemes where premiums don't rise year on year and where pre existing conditions aren't excluded. We need to stop obsessing about the US system and look to all the other countries that have working/affordable health systems. It's not a binary choice between our NHS (that no other country has copied) and the US system.

They were right. They retired at the beginning of a decade of real improvement with waiting times down and a patient satisfaction level of over 70% by 2010. We all know what happened then.