So you visited a couple hospitals with an ill relative at some point in the past and know a couple of people who work in health care, and thinks this gives you the bigger picture on how the whole NHS is run?
my partner and I both work in health care and we've worked in hospitals both local and spread across the country, in every department from surgery and theatres to obstetrics and elderly medicine, we both trained at university and our peers are also spread to every corner of this land working in health care, health tourism is not the biggest issue facing the NHS today, its an issue but its not exactly at the top of the agenda when it comes to saving money or NHS resources
Currently health tourism depending on what you read is thought to cost anything from £7million to BILLIONS!!!! (if you believe the press figures based on absolutely no data) in all honesty no one can put a figure on what it is costing but a fairly accurate estimate based on the data is about £40million a year.
NHS reforms are thought to be costing about £300million, so you propose we reform the whole healthcare system again at god knows what cost to save about £40million a year?
34.1 million working age people in the UK and 30.1million pay into the pot so you want to make 30.1million working people and 27.9million children and elderly who have or will paid in to the system, suffer for the sake of 4million residents and a few ineligible immigrants
your private health care proposal could also condemn around 15million people a quarter of the population to a life without any healthcare because they are either too old or too disabled to get adequate cover for there needs?
I see no sanity in this plan what so-ever :bang: