I believe that the NHS is an organization that will never accept the level of funding that it receives as being enough. Therefore, we should have a public consultation on what exactly the NHS is for and what it’s priorities should be.
I believe that we should be given direct democracy over the NHS. A census style consultation every 5 years, to determine what the public want from the health service. We should then take the results of that consultation and divert funding to the priorities that were highlighted.
We can not go on funding our health service to provide every single need, want and desire of every single minority group or individual and I believe that we could strip out a huge amount of cost by reducing services as well as charging people for miss use and charging people for treatment of injuries that have resulted because of their own choices to do something dangerous.
For example:
If you go out every weekend and drink 10 pints of beer and half a dozen shots of tequila, which results in you needing to be picked up off the street by an ambulance crew… You should be charged for that.
If you ride a motorbike or a bicycle and you come off it, resulting in being hospitalized… You should be charged for it.
If you partake in extreme sports and need hospital treatment… You should be charged for it.
Anything that isn’t servicing injury, illness or disease should be charged for.
We could still have the NHS treat the above, however there could be a tier system for insurance where by, if you do something that is statistically dangerous, such as, mountain biking, you opt into an enhancement of your NI payments to cover you in the event of injury, whilst doing that activity.
I don’t think that it’s fair that any one of us could go cliff diving, break a leg and then just expect everyone to pick up the tab. It’s your choice to partake in dangerous activities and I think each of us should be accountable for our choices.
