QUOTE (stevewinn @ Nov 18 2007, 01:09 PM)

Like someone has already said the NHS isnt for this sort of thing, it remindes me of the NHS wasting 300 million on removing tattoos. Its about time we got rid of the NHS. its costing us a fortune £58 Billion year, and year after year the reports are always the NHS in crisis and its never going to be the best health care in the world has long as its wasting money on procedures that are meaningless.
"health tourists" they alone cost the NHS 200 million a year,
The NHS needs to start making sure any person coming to the UK for a holiday or a longer stay should have health insurance, if they dont have it we simply dont let them in.
The NHS can only handle 27 million people, yet we live in a country of 62 million, and here we are adding to the numbers everyday, people are coming here on oil slicks, backs of trucks. super-glued to aeroplanes, its no wonder the NHS struggles.
We only have to look across the channel at France, their health care is the best in the world no wonder they're living longer,
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In my opinion, the NHS was an incredible thing. It enabled everybody to have health care and it is so very admirable. However, it is now, as you state, being used for the most peculiar things, things that are not life-threatening, but purely cosmetic.
I 100% agree with you regarding health insurance for overseas visitors, why shouldn't they get it, we have to when we go abroad!
This country is too damned soft if you ask me. They seem to think that to appear, to the rest of the world as "humane" we need to treat everybody exactly the same no matter what the circumstances. Unfortunately, whilst doing just this, the people who live here permanently are being treated like doormats. Why the hell this country cannot stand up and be counted eludes me