Re: The Tories want to break the NHS
Whilst a lot of what you say is fair, "a treatment is available and therefore it is available on the NHS" - is not the case. While the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) do approve a lot of treatments, there are many that don't make the cut. The main purpose of this body is to ration treatments according to it's cost effectiveness. Sounds blunt when applied to human lives but we have to accept that we do not have limitless resources.
The way I see it is if we all took more responsibility for ourselves, it would ease a huge burden on the NHS. Preventable disease takes a huge chunk of the NHS budget each year.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
