Who should pay for our health?

17/08/2007

I think there should be a two-tier health service. Why should people with self-inflicted illnesses like obesity, liver problems through excessive drinking, drug addicts and the like have free treatment, when unlucky people, through no fault of their own, who get diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s or AMD cannot get the treatment they need?

The self-inflicted ill patients should pay the others to have the treatment they need.

K Beattie, Gwent

 

 

My Canadian Mother-in-Law died in March of this year. She suffered from Alzheimer’s. She received all of the drugs she needed irrespective of cost. She received all of the home support she required. Nothing was means tested. Canada has no NICE!

 

To the shame of our politicians the UK, and England in particular, comes way down the list. Of course, one reason may be that none of our politicians or senior civil servants are affected at all by their strategies. All have very generous index linked pensions and private health care.

Paul Rhodes, London SW19