No surprise, you had to be over the age of 39 before you were more likely to vote for Brexit.
By the time we got around to implementing it enough old people had died off that the vote would have gone the other way already.
By the time we got around to implementing it enough old people had died off that the vote would have gone the other way already.
Perhaps that isn't the whole story, maybe old people tend to have more life threatening conditions, so triage puts them first. But from my perspective, private health insurance is now mandatory in the UK if you're not old or a child, and I am even going to put my children on private health insurance. So now I'm paying a fortune in taxes for a health system I can no rely on, so must pay for private too.
Otherwise a comprehensive health insurance wouldn’t cost 200£ a month per person (I just requested a quote from AXA, as a 45 year old with no health problems, adding all packages, unlimited specialist visits and no excess)
I'm a bit older than you, and the taxable value of my PHI is £140/month. I've not looked into what that covers, or what the excess etc is, and have never even considered making use of it.
And why would I? When I needed treatment in a hurry, I was blue lighted to Barts and spent two weeks in their ITU getting world-class care free of charge, with not a single thought given to cost or having to call my insurer to ask permission for particular treatments or whatever. Thank fuck for the NHS!
That's what we're dealing with. Underinvestment only enriches their camp.
At the same time, it’s a testament to the weakness of other parties that they can’t even articulate that sufficiently well.